History: specific events and topics

A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing'The thinking person's John le Carr ' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carr ' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers WeeklyIt is 1982 and the British prime minister and the Argentine president are both clinging to power.

Winner of the STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"e;This book seems prophetic in the wake of Donald Trump and the current controversy over 'fake news'"e; Daily Telegraph"e;One can't help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, postmodern genre"e; Sara WheelerDocumenting Sayarer's real life journey hitchhiking across the US, this fascinating memoir tells the story of the forgotten people lost in their own country, grappling to find a voice in the vast political landscape of the US.

A masterful and subsersive retelling of the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba, by an award-winning novelist at the height of his powers'[A] fierce, sinewy novel' Howard Jacobsen'A wonderfully rich novel.

'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today .

On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying 17 members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile.

A new edition of Nicola Shulman's miniature masterpiece about the life of gardener Reginald Farrer A hundred years ago, there was a revolution in British gardening, as the garden changed from being a diversion of dukes to the hobby of millions.

William Stone died on 10 January 2009 aged 108.

My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written with the aid of Frederick Douglass, a diffusion of his earlier Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, discussing in extra element his transition from bondage to liberty.

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"e;This delightful memoir is a deeply personal tale of one family, but it's also about much larger things: America and tribal identity, love and rivalry, and the moral lessons to be learned as you grow up.

When the 236-metre long container ship Rena ploughed into and was impaled upon the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga at 2.

The history of the Irish republican movement is dominated by the story of the men who took up arms in Ireland's fight for freedom against the British.

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942.

Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers.

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Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined.

Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea.

Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present.

A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.

A remarkable series of over 200 eye-witness accounts taken from diaries, letters, speeches, interviews and memoirs of those who were there: pilots, sailors, generals, infantrymen, war correspondents and leaders.

In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything.

One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background.

The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan.

In November 1963 President John F.

This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Levant is a book of cities.

Some of our most intriguing history is missing.

The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric.

Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War.

Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill.

The English eccentric is under threat.

'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna TrollopeOne summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history.

In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned.

When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city.

Founded in 1872, Temple Street Children's Hospital is now one of Ireland's best recognised children's hospitals.

The story of baby trafficking organised by nuns, sanctioned by an archbishop, administered by civil servants and approved by politicians who tried to keep it secret.

The history of the Middle Ages [in Ireland] is so neglected that the only figure of renown is Strongbow, the man who led the Norman Invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century .

'Brick walls' occur everywhere and all the time in genealogy research.

This is a step-by-step guide to using the wealth of online records to trace your family tree from your own computer, without the need to travel to national and regional record offices.

In der Biografie des Gründers des weltberühmten Hamburger Tropeninstituts verdichten sich Kolonialismus, Nationalismus und modernes Gesundheitsmanagement.

'Urgent, profound and compassionate ROBERT MACFARLANE'Truly original .

Tennis's gladiatorial beauty, its stylish duelling and fashionable court-wear make it a romantic's dream.

We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment.

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'.

Is your heart fluttering in anticipation?

'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie'J.