Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen (TEXT ONLY)
From the author of ‘The Pike’ – winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction – a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake.
Military history
I Didn’t Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation (Text Only)
One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa’s best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong brilliantly reveals the contradictions and comedy, past and present, of Eritrea.
Public Servant, Secret Agent: The elusive life and violent death of Airey Neave (Text Only)
The first biography of Airey Neave, Colditz escapee, MI6 officer, mastermind of Margaret Thatcher’s leadership campaign and on the verge of being her first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he was brutally murdered in the palace of Westminster by the INLA.
Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev (Text Only)
In 1942 at the centre point of World War II an extraordinary event took place not on the battlefield but in a municipal stadium in Kiev. This is the true story of courage, team loyalty and fortitude in the face of the most brutal oppression the world had ever seen.
The Mulberry Empire
The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.
Unbroken
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.
One Shot, One Kill: A History of the Sniper: Text only edition
Previously published as The Hunting of Man
One shot, one kill: a cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during the battle for Litchfield in the English Civil War, to the present day, when the sniper has become the embodiment of contemporary military strategy and technology.
Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972
An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.
War
From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger’s almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.
Unbroken
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.
The Last Veteran
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.
War
From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger’s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.
Stanley I Presume?
A rip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson – father of London mayor Boris Johnson.
The Last Veteran: Harry Patch and the Legacy of War
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.
SS 1: The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler
First serious examination of the curious demise of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler that also investigates an extraordinary web of secret deals and international intrigue.
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
From the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.