*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*Spain, August 1810The English army faces ruin in Spain - and the Duke of Wellington is desperate for money to fund the war.
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SASPenguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of SAS: Rogue Heroes, written and read by Ben MacIntyre.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star.
Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023*A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.
The Sunday Times bestseller'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAILIn August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed.
An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year'A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city's chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism' Financial TimesThis is the first major history of wartime Naples to appear in the English language.
The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin.
You might already know that World War I was the Great War, and be familiar with its images; muddy trenches, poison gas, and a no-man's land of craters and barbed wire.
Set in the 12th century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, Ivanhoe tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric's ward.
From the author of 'Wartime' and 'The Thirties'comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz.
