History Books
Little, Brown & Company They Made America From the Steam Engine to the
Book SynopsisAn illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.Trade Review'Evans's book sticks to the facts and presents them with admirable clarity, and largely avoids illusions' - New York Review of Books 'Quirky and satisfying from the first chapter to the last sidebar' - Washington Post Book World
£24.64
Little, Brown & Company A Terrible Glory
Book SynopsisIn June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility. Custer, who was conveniently dead, took the brunt of the blame. The truth, however was far more complex. A TERRIBLE GLORY is the first book to tell the entire story of this fascinating battle, and the first to call upon new findings of the last 25 years - which have changed how this event is perceived. It is also the first book to reveal the details of the cover-up - and unravel one of the greatest mysteries in military history. Scrupulously researched, A TERRIBLE GLORY will stand as a landmark work. Brimming with authentic detail and an unforgettable cast of characters - from Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to Ulysses Grant and Custer himself - this is history with the sweep of a great novel.Trade ReviewIn this labour of love, Donovan collects the multiple threads that led to the 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn... Exhaustive research, lively prose and fresh interpretation make for a valuable addition to literature on this otherwise well-trodden historical event * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
£13.99
Little, Brown & Company The Admirals
Book SynopsisOnly four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world''s greatest fleet. In THE ADMIRALS, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men-who were both friends and rivals-worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II.Trade ReviewThe first book to deal with the four [admirals] together, focusing on their intertwined lives, friendships, and rivalries....A very well-crafted book. - John Lehman, Washington Post In his superbly reported new book, historian Walter R. Borneman tackles the essential question of military leadership: What makes some men, but not others, able to motivate a fighting force into battle? - Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Engagingly written and deeply researched... Mr. Borneman makes it easy to understand the complex series of maneuvers and counter-maneuvers at Leyte Gulf...which is not always the case with accounts of the battle. - Andrew Roberts, Wall Street JournalBorneman demonstrates comprehensive command of published and unpublished sources, fingertip understanding of the period, and a polished writing style in this unique collective biography of the four men who 'with a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics' shaped the modern U.S. Navy to win WWII at sea. - Publishers WeeklyWalter Borneman's The Admirals is an epic group portrait of Nimitz, Halsey, Leahey, and King. Not since the heyday of Samuel Eliot Morison has a historian painted such a fine portrait of the five-star admirals who helped America beat Japan during the Second World War. Highly recommended! - Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and author of The Wilderness Warrior
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Harriet Tubman
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£15.29
Little, Brown & Company What Have We Done
Book SynopsisMost Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. Featuring portraits of combat veterans and leading mental health researchers, along with Wood''s personal observations of war and the young Americans deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, WHAT HAVE WE DONE offers an unflinching look at war and those who volunteer for it: the thrill and pride of service and, too often, the scars of moral injury.Impeccably researched and deeply personal, WHAT HAVE WE DONE is a compassionate, finely drawn study of modern war and those caught up in it. It is a call to acknowledge our newest generation of veterans by listening intently to them and absorbing their storie
£25.65
Little, Brown & Company One Long Night
Book SynopsisFor over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of never again.In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repressio
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Unmentionable
Book SynopsisHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there''s arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn''t question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ~ What to wear ~ Where to relieve yourself ~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating ~ What to expect on your wedding night ~ How to be the perfect Victorian wife ~ Why masturbating will kill you ~ And moreIrresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O''Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstaticallygrateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)
£13.49
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc The Amusement Park 900 Years of Thrills and
Book SynopsisStep right up! The Amusement Park is a rich, anecdotal history that begins nine centuries ago with the pleasure gardens of Europe and England and ends with the rise and fall and rise again of some of the most elaborate parks in the world. It''s a history told largely through the stories of the colorful, sometimes hedonistic characters who built them and features, among many, showmen like Joseph and Nicholas Schenck and Marcus Loew, railroad barons such as Andrew Mellon and Henry E. Huntington, and the men who ultimately destroyed the parks including Robert Moses and Fred Trump. The many gifted artisans and craftspeople who brought these parks to life are also featured, along with an amazing cast of supporting players from Al Capone to Annie Oakley. And, of course, there are the rides, whose marvels of engineering and heart-stopping thrills are celebrated at full throttle. The parks and fairs featured include the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair, Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Dreaml
£25.50
Little, Brown & Company In Shakespeares Shadow
Book SynopsisThe true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before.In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his 'singular genius.'Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction
£14.39
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Tenements Towers Trash
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed cartoonist presents New York City as you've never seen it before, with a side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York (the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all), but the underbelly of the city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes 'Then and Now' and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**
£25.20
Little, Brown & Company See You Again in Pyongyang
Book SynopsisA close-up look at the cloistered country (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen''s probing and artful (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans'' entrepreneurial spirit, and hidden love of foreign media, as well as their dreams and fears (Los Angeles Times). In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Korea, culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in the country to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un Era. Anchored by the experience of his five trips to North Korea and his interactions with citizens from all walks of life, Jeppesen takes readers behind the propaganda, showing how the North Korean system actually works in daily life. He challenges the notion that Pyongyang is merely a showcase capital where everything is staged for the benefit of foreigners, as well as the idea that Pyongyangites are brainwashed robots. Jeppesen introduces readers to an array of fascinating North Koreans, from government ministers with a side hustle in black market Western products to young people enamored with American pop culture. With unique personal insight and a rigorous historical grounding, Jeppesen goes beyond the media cliches, showing North Koreans in their full complexity. See You Again in Pyongyang is an essential addition to the literature about one of the world''s most fascinating and mysterious places.
£13.29
Little, Brown & Company History of United States Naval Operations in
Book SynopsisHistory of the United States Naval Operations in World War II.
£26.10
Little, Brown & Company Born to Be Hanged
Book SynopsisDiscover the fascinating and outrageously readable account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God)The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era-a story not given its full due until now.Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morgan-yes, that Captain Morgan-the company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent.With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the pirates'' legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time.
£17.09
Pan Macmillan The Making of Modern Britain
Book SynopsisIn The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, fTable of ContentsSection - i: Preface Chapter - 1: Living in the Future 1900-1914 Chapter - 2: The Meaning of Hell 1914-1918 Chapter - 3: Keeping Our Balance 1919-1939 Chapter - 4: Through Fire, A New Country 1939-1945 Section - ii: Notes Section - iii: Acknowledgements Index - iv: Index
£13.49
Pan Macmillan Former People
Book SynopsisDouglas Smith is an internationally recognized expert in Russian history. He is the author of numerous articles and critically acclaimed books, including Rasputin: The Biography, and The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
£11.69
Pan Macmillan A Turn in the South
Book SynopsisV. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 20Trade ReviewNaipaul’s writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there’s the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things. * Sunday Times *Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear. * New York Times Review of Books *This is a journey below the Mason–Dixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . . . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash’s The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago. * Sunday Telegraph *
£10.79
Pan Macmillan The Man Who Saved Britain
Book SynopsisSimon Winder is the author of The Man Who Saved Britain and the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Germania. He works in publishing and lives in Wandsworth Town.Trade ReviewOne of the oddest books I have ever read . . . a very funny writer, as well as an incisive one * Evening Standard *A superb book -- Andrew Roberts * Wall Street Journal *Witty and intelligent * Financial Times *A splenetic turn of phrase that’s read-aloud funny * Independent on Sunday *Almost insanely entertaining * Daily Telegraph *A more entertaining tour of 007, and the period associations that get sucked into Winder’s great comic intelligence, is hard to imagine * London Review of Books *Diversions for the general reader and delights for the Bond enthusiast * Sunday Times *A delightfully quirky, immediately engaging book * Scotland on Sunday *An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country * Sunday Times *A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir * Guardian *
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sweden in the Seventeenth Century European
Book SynopsisPAUL DOUGLAS LOCKHART is Associate Professor of History at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. He is a specialist in the history of early modern Scandinavia, and his previous publications include Denmark in the Thirty Years' War (1996).
£104.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The First World War
Book SynopsisGERARD DE GROOT is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in the Department of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.
£28.79
Hodder Education Hodder History The Black Peoples Of America
Book SynopsisThe Black Peoples of America is an essential and unique Key Stage 3 resource for teaching and learning about the issues and events that characterise the history of Black peoples from Slavery up to the struggle for Civil Rights and life in modern America. It never lets go of the period''s story, providing innovative and exciting opportunities to examine the Big Picture and Investigate particular topics. This foundation edition has been written for use with lower attainers and promotes literacy as well as knowledge and understanding. Discover how at least 12 million Black people were taken as slaves from Africa to America in the three hundred years after 1532 (and why at least two million died during the sea journey); how one slave hid in a box, ''posted'' himself to freedom in the North and afterwards was know as Henry ''Box'' Brown; and how Black people who volunteered to fight against slavery in 1861 were turned away because it was thought to be a ''White Man''s War''!Trade ReviewI would not hesitate to recommend this to anyone as a very competent aid to the classroom practitioner. * SATH *Table of Contents : 1. Slavery comes to the Americas : 2. Life on the American Plantations : 3. The end of slavery in the Americas : 4. The birth of the Civil Rights Movement : 5. Challenges to segregation 1951-65 : 6. From the 1960s to the new millenium
£24.11
Hodder Education Access to History Context An Introduction to
Book SynopsisEach volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the period it covers. Although the emphasis is clearly on political history, the majoy issues affecting the economy, society, religion, culture and ideas are also given appropriate treatment. Sufficient detail is included to ensure that a sound basic knowledge and understanding is acquired.This title introduces the major political and social themes of this period of American history in an accessible and progressive way. Issues and events such as slavery, the origins and course of the American Civil War, boom and bust, and foreign policy are given full coverage. Particular topics such as the USA and the Cold War, involvement in Vietnam and race relations are also introduced and analysed. This is an essential text for students studying aspects of American history for AS and A Level.Trade ReviewThe book is easy to read and use; the summaries are excellent for revision purposes. There are some good, and as yet unused, primary sources, for practice with candidates, and a wealth of illustrations to keep the readers interested...this is a book worthy of purchase. * SATH Resources Review *Very good coverage of topic - we have purchased many Access series before. * S Reilly, St Marys College *The material, some of which is new, is presented in a different way which makes it much easier to access for the student of this time. There are excellent summaries on the major issues of the day...The book is easy to read and use; the summaries are excellent for revision purposes. There are some good, and as yet unused, primary sources, for practice with candidates, and a wealth of illustrations to keep the readers interested...this is a book worthy of purchase. * SATH Resources Review *Table of Contents 1: The causes of the American Civil War 2: The American Civil War and Reconstruction 3: The USA: 1900-41 4: American Foreign Policy, 1914-45 5: Twentieth-Century Race Relations 6: The Cold War (1945-1990) 7: The United States and Vietnam 8: Domestic Politics: 1945-1990
£34.89
Hodder & Stoughton 1215 The Year of Magna Carta
Book SynopsisBroad in scope and rich in detail, 1215: THE YEAR OF MAGNA CARTA is a vivid exploration of what may have been the most important year of our lives.Trade ReviewA fascinating, readable digest of social history which has "bestseller" written all over it. * Frank McLynn, Non-fiction read of the week, Sunday *Entertaining and informative... Even more enjoyable than the account of the Magna Carta itself is the depiction of how we were, who we were and how many we were in the crucial year of 1215. * Antonia Fraser, Mail on Sunday *Danziger and Gillingham have the knack of walking us right into history and making us feel at home...this is a hugely enjoyable window into medieval life. * Independent *Danziger and Gillingham write clearly and accessibly to bring their slice of history to life...(they) admirably remind us of the chaotic soil in which the first glimmerings of British political freedom took root. * Simon Jenkins, The Sunday Times *The disquisitions on education, medicine and agriculture are informative ... delightful. * Times Literary Supplement *The authors entertain and inform with pertinent reflection...Life in the castles and the violent streets of London, the lure of the crusades and the dominant theme of rural life are all examined with panache. * Oxford Times *[A] superb account of the year of Magna Carta...fascinating descritpions of life at the time, and of the surrounding world. * Independent *
£11.69
Hodder & Stoughton Trafalgar
Book SynopsisTwo hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson.On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As Captain Charles Tyler wrote to his wife Margaret, ''the wind blew a perfect storm''.The authors of the bestselling FINEST HOUR tell this story not only through the diaries, letters and memoirs of the men who wrestled with the enemy and the elements, but also through the eyes of their wives and children. Whether you are already familiar with this period of history or are coming to it for the first time, TRAFALGAR is a book that will enthral as it illuminates an event whose repercussions still echo today.Trade ReviewIf you want just one book that will show how this flood of new material can transform a story you thought you knew, while at the same time keeping you gripped like a page-turner novel, buy TRAFALGAR by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig. * Observer *Excellent...comprehensively researched, vividly written and judiciously argued. Wonderfully detailed pen portraits...Much new material from French and Spanish sources gives a rounded picture...compelling. Clayton and Craig have written about conflict before and it shows. * Saul David, Daily Telegraph *One of the book's greatest strengths is the attention paid to the "perfect storm" that began only hours after the fighting had stopped and gave rise to incredible acts of heroism and self-sacrifice. * Glasgow Herald *Clayton and Craig...have found, among a great trove of participants' vivid letters and diaries, support for a revisionist approach to the Trafalgar legend * The Sunday Times *The most fluent account of Trafalgar for a generation * Ships Telegraph *Vivid and compelling...an account of significant importance. * Naval Review *A magnificent account of the battle itself, including a detailed analysis of the storm that might well have wiped out the British fleet after victory had been won, had it not been for superb seamanship. * Guardian *'My book of the year is TRAFALGAR ... a gripping account of the events of l805. The characters from both the British and Combined fleets are drawn with such understanding and sympathy that the full horror of the battle became all the more vivid as many of those I'd come to admire were sliced in half by cannon balls or disembowelled by chain-shot and splinters. the story that followed was as monstruos as the fighting that preceded it. The tactics and movements of sea battles are notoriously difficult to explain, but the authors draw the geography of the action with expert clarity.' * Harry Enfield's in Mail on Sunday *
£13.49
Hodder & Stoughton Brainwash The Secret History of Mind Control
Book SynopsisThe sometimes shocking, always fascinating history of brainwashing, from the bestselling author of COCAINETrade Review'An extraordinary book' * Andrew Marr, Start the Week *'Gripping' - 5 out of 6 stars * Time Out *Meticulously researched and superbly readable * Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Daily Telegraph *'Streatfield does an important service by bringing this curious phase to our attention again. Vivid descriptions of key moments in the story are interspersed with analysis.' * Christopher Sylvesters, Financial Times *'Marvellously engrossing . . . Streatfield's narrative control cannot be faulted. You know where every story is going, but how it gets there is always a thrill. His research is formidable.' * Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times *
£12.34
Hodder & Stoughton The Search For Nefertiti
Book Synopsis'The biggest discovery since Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon unearthed Tutankhamun in 1922' The Sunday TimesTrade ReviewThe biggest discovery since Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon unearthed Tutankhamun in 1922 * The Sunday Times *
£15.29
Hodder & Stoughton Hadrians Empire
Book SynopsisHadrian''s Wall is one of the world''s best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell reveal the details of the extraordinary life of this mysterious man, and the age in which he lived and ruled.Hadrian was Spanish, and a restless, inquiring intellectual. He travelled constantly and spent much time in cultural centres like Athens and Alexandria. Although he was not warlike, he was a good soldier, and was comfortable mingling amongst all ranks. And yet his personal life was a complicated one, rife with scandal and conflicted sexuality.This complex character was also responsible for some of the world''s most enduring architectural treasures. He built the Pantheon in Rome, the largest dome built using pre-industrial methods and a sprawling 900-room villa at Tivoli with a towering ''pumpkin doTrade Review'Racy and readable. They give us an excellent sense of what life was like when Rome was still vigorous.' * Daily Telegraph *Interesting . . . this is a decent introduction, with more than half an eye on modern echoes. * The Sunday Times *
£11.69
Hodder & Stoughton A Cat Called Birmingham
Book SynopsisIn the long history of mankind''s relationship with felines, one cat stands head and shoulders below the rest. Highly inflammable, the glass-jawed Birmingham lurches from one catastrophe to the next. Through encounters with washing machine spin cycles to his lovelorn pursuit of the aggressively uninterested Sammy, Chris Pascoe''s hilarious book paints an intimate portrait of the author''s calamitous relationship with a cat wholly unsuited to being feline. Persistently molested by an irate sparrow, physically incapable of negotiating the intricacies of the cat-flap and with a near-fatal appreciation of the effects of gravity, Brum nevertheless remains steadfast in his subconscious pursuit of oblivion. Worryingly, these stories are true. Will nine lives be enough?Trade ReviewCharming * Free Press *An original comic voice - wry, assured, sometimes whimsical and sometimes surreal but throughout refreshingly uncynical . . . the best kind of humour * Julian Dutton, writer, Alistair MacGowan Show *Charming * Free Press *Anyone who loves or knows cats will be able to relate to Chris Pascoe's hilarious and affectionate account of the hapless Birmingham's adventures. I literally cried with laughter. * Jo Rothery (Editor, Cat World Magazine) *P.G.Wodehouse had his pekes, A.A. Milne his teddy bear - Chris Pascoe has his cat. A CAT CALLED BIRMINGHAM is the debut of an original comic voice - wry, assured, sometimes whimsical and sometimes surreal but throughout refreshingly uncynical. As a result of reading his book, I have taken to laughing at cats in the street, much to the puzzlement of the owners.We all know that the funniest bits of You've Been Framed are the animal slapstick - well, this book is all that and more besides: Pascoe relates the comic misadventures of his pet with unflagging energy and relish, underpinned with an affection that never becomes mawkish. He has the ability to fashion fine humour form the minutiae of everyday life - which is the best kind of humour. I have news for anyone who has laughed at the antics of an animal but not bothered to write it down. Someone has - Chris Pascoe. * Julian Dutton, writer, Alistair MacGowan Show *This eccentric memoir has very little to do with the West Midland's favourite conurbation. Instead, it's the rather charming story of Mr Pascoe's own pet, a madcap moggy who can't help but cause mayhem . . . * Birmingham Sunday Mercury *This eccentric memoir has very little to do with the West Midland's favourite conurbation. Instead, it's the rather charming story of Mr Pascoe's own pet, a madcap moggy who can't help but cause mayhem . . . It belongs to that very traditional genre - old-fashioned romance. It's just that instead of the usual boy-meets-girl hokum, we have the love that dare not speak its name. The passion between a man and his cat * Birmingham Sunday Mercury *Anyone who loves or knows cats will be able to relate to Chris Pascoe's hilarious and affectionate account of the hapless Birmingham's adventures. I literally cried with laughter. * Jo Rothery (Editor, Cat World Magazine) *I read this with tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks. * Eila Reid, Editor of My Weekly *
£9.49
Hodder & Stoughton Lost Voices of The Royal Navy
Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Max Arthur pays tribute to the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1945. Drawing on the personal stories of those who have served during this period, he has created a unique narrative history of the senior service.FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE ROYAL NAVY is a memorable and moving testament to the courage, spirit, skill and irrepressible humour of those who served in the Royal Navy during these crucial years.Trade ReviewAcclaim for FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR by Max Arthur: 'An extraordinary and extremely moving book.' * Stephen Fry *These stories are so harrowing, their witness so precise and devastating. * The Times *Very few men are still alive who fought in the trenches in the First World War. The words of the soldiers, however, are as fresh as if they were written yesterday . . . extraordinary. * Mail on Sunday *
£13.49
Hodder & Stoughton 12 Books That Changed The World
Book SynopsisWhen we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book. In our digitised age of instant information it is easy to underestimate the power of the printed word. In his fascinating new book accompanying the ITV series, Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political and personal revolution. Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. There are also surprises. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare - but we also discover the stories behind some less well-known works, such as Marie Stopes'' Married Love, the original radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft''s A Vindication ofTrade ReviewBragg writes with passion...and once again, shows his capacity to make science and technology both exciting and accessible. * Independent *'Bragg has established himself over the past decades as a fearlessly dedicated, popular educator . . . a highly and easily readable book.' * John Sutherland, The Sunday Times *'It can charm almost anyone of any age . . . yet again Bragg has displayed his extraordinary and unique gifts as a communicator' * Christena Appleyard, Daily Mail *'This is an inspiring, fascinating and stimulating book with marvellous illustrations' * Niall MacMonagle, Irish Times *
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Hodder & Stoughton Tank Men
Book SynopsisTHE AUTHORITATIVE AND ORIGINAL ACCOUNT OF TANK WARFARE, TOLD BY THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED THROUGH IT. Perfect for fans of John Nichol, Peter Caddick-Adams and Max Hastings ''A highly original and valuable piece of military history. It ought to transform our idea of the Second World War; it has mine'' - Sir John Keegan''Tank Men is a triumph . . . it is a really fine piece of work'' - Richard Holmes-------The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank.In Tank Men, ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines.Drawing on vivid, newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars, this is military history at its very best. -------Readers'' praise for Tank Men:''The narrative is excellent and allows one to view the work, servicing and horrendous battles from the safety of one''s chair.'' ????? ''One of those books which I felt genuinely gutted when I realised I was reaching the end. Just brilliant. Very balanced, taking testimony from all sides of a brutal part of any conflict. It combines human stories with technical detail and historical context - no mean feat. ????? ''For anyone who thinks that the tank was a safe haven in war read this book. For all AFV modellers and re-enacters who have never been involved with the real thing, read this book. ????? ''A first-class book that I highly recommend to anyone who wants to gain insight into what fighting inside a tank was like.'' ?????Trade ReviewA highly original and valuable piece of military history. It ought to transform our idea of the Second World War, it has mine...a marvellous and origninal book based on the most detailed research. * Sir John Keegan *I thought TANK MEN was a triumph ... it is a really fine piece of work * Richard Holmes *Some of the eye witness accounts Kershaw has collected for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill the reader to the bone. This is warfare at the sharp end. * Nottingham Evenong Post *Very well written, with excellent photographs, it's an indispensable addition to the body of knowledge about modern warfare. * South Wales Argus *
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Hodder & Stoughton England Our England
Book SynopsisAn anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: - From Austen to Wordsworth - Jerusalem to the Scout''s Honour - Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory- Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers - Tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea - Victoria sponge to fish pie - The rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas
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Hodder Education Access to History Prosperity Depression and the
Book SynopsisEnsure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The series:- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. - Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers Table of Contents : Chapter 1 - A Changing Nation : Introduction : Historical Background : The Political System : The USA 1890-1920 : The Growth of Big Business and its Impact on the USA : New Immigration : The Populist Movement and Political Protest : Growth of Empire : Progressivism and the Progressive Presidents : US Entry into the First World War : Study Guide : Chapter 2 - Problems and Tensions in the USA 1917-28 : A Changing Society : The Presidency of Warren Harding : Tensions in Society : Religion and Morality : The Old Versus the New : Study Guide : Chapter 3 - Prosperity? : The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge : The Boom Years : Reasons for Prosperity : Problems in the Economy : The Strength of the Economy : Study Guide : Chapter 4 - The Collapse of the Wall Street Stock Market, October 1929 : The Wall Street Crash : Causes of the Wall Street Crash : Effects of the Wall Street Crash : Study Guide : Chapter 5 - President Hoover and the Great Depression : Introduction : Herbert Hoover: His Background and Beliefs : The USA During the Great Depression : Why the Depression Lasted So Long : Federal Government Policies : The 1932 Presidential Election : President Hoover: an Epitaph : The Key Debate : Study Guide : Chapter 6 - Roosevelt and the First New Deal 1933-4 : Beginnings of Roosevelt's Presidency : The First 100 Days and the First New Deal : Alternatives to the New Deal : The Character of the First New Deal : Study Guide : Chapter 7 - Roosevelt and the Later New Deals 1935-9 : Introduction : The Second New Deal : The 1936 Presidential Election : Problems in the Second Term : The Later New Deal : The End of the New Deal : Study Guide : Chapter 8 - American Foreign Policy 1920-41 : Introduction : US Foreign Policy in the 1920s : Roosevelt's Foreign Policies 1933-9 : US Response to the European War : Road to Pearl Harbour : US Foreign Policy: An Overview : Study Guide : Chapter 9 - The New Deal in Retrospect : Introduction : Relief, Recovery and Reform : Race and Gender : Impact of the Second World War on the USA : Political Legacy of the New Deal : The Key Debate : Conclusion : Study Guide : Chapter 10 - The USA and the Fear of Communism : Introduction : Postwar Prosperity : Foreign Policy 1945-54 : Domestic Responses to Communism : Conclusion : Study Guide : Glossary : Index
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Hodder Education Access to History Elizabeth I Meeting the
Book SynopsisEnsure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The series:- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. - Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers Table of Contents : Dedication : Chapter 1 -Meeting the Challenge: The Legacy of a Mid-Tudor Crisis? : 1 The Mid-Tudor Crisis: Definitions : 2 Making the Traditional Case for a Mid-Tudor Crisis : 3 Making the Case Against a Mid-Tudor Crisis : 4 The Reign of Edward VI 1547-53: The Revisionist View : 5 The Reign of Mary I 1553-8: The Revisionist View : 6 Conclusion : Study Guide : Chapter 2 -Meeting the Challenge of Religion: The Elizabethan Religious Settlement : 1 The Relgigious Beliefs of Elizabeth I : 2 Supremacy and Uniformity: The First Moves : 3 Supremacy and Uniformity: The Parliament of 1559 : 4 Historical Interpretations of the Factors Shaping the Settlement : 5 The Settlement in Action : 6 Archbishop Parker and the Vestiarian Controversy : 7 Elizabeth as Supreme Governor of the Church of England : 8 Conclusion: The Elizabethan Religious Settlement : Study Guide : Chapter 3 -Meeting the Challenge of Relgion: Elizabeth and the Puritans : 1 Introduction : 2 Puritanism and Presbyteriansim in the 1570's : 3 The Tragedy of Grindal : 4 Presbyteriansim in the 1580's : 5 The Puritans Under Attack 1589-1603 : 6 Conclusion: Elizabeth and the Puritans : Study Guide : Chapter 4 -Meeting the Challenge of Religion: Elizabeth and the Catholics : 1 1559-68: The Government Treads with Caution? : 2 The Attitude of the Pope : 3 The Revolt of the Northern Ears (or 'Northern Rebellion') 1569 : 4 Papal Excommunication 1570 : 5 The Arrival of the Missionary Priests : 6 The Missionary Priests and the Threat of Invasion from Spain : 7 Key Debate: The Strength of Catholicism : 8 Conclusion: Elizabeth and the Catholics : Study Guide : Chapter 5 -Meeting the Challenge of Foreign Affairs: Elizabeth, France and Spain : 1 Aims and Objectives in Foreign Policy : 2 Assumptions on Foreign Policy : 3 Foreign Affairs: France : 4 Foreign Affairs: Spain : 5 Conclusion: Elizabeht, France and Spain : Study Guide : Chapter 6 -Meeting the Challenge of Foreign Affairs: Elizabeth, Ireland and Scotland : 1 Irish Society and England in the Sixteenth Century : 2 Elizabeth and Ireland: Problems and Possible Solutions : 3 Elizabeth and Scotland : Study Guide : Chapter 7 -Meeting the Challenge of Government 1558-88 : 1 The Role of Nobility, Court, Privy Council and Ministers : 2 The Role of Parliament : 3 The Financial Policies of the Crown : 4 Conclusion: Meeting the Challenge of Government : Study Guide : Chapter 8 - Meeting the Challenge: The Final Years 1589-1603 : 1 Factions and Court: The Essex Rebellion : 2 Social and Economic Distress in the 1590's : 3 England, Scotland and the Succession : 4 Summary: The Final Years. The Tarnished Image of Gloriana? : 5 Conclusion : Study Guide : Further Reading : Glossary : Index
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Hodder Education Access to History AntiSemitism and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisEnsure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The series:- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. - Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers
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Random House Publishing Group The Borgias
Book SynopsisThe startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu. They burst out of obscurity in Spain not only to capture the great prize of the papacy, but to do so twice. Throughout a tumultuous half-century—as popes, statesmen, warriors, lovers, and breathtakingly ambitious political adventurers—they held center stage in the glorious and blood-drenched pageant known to us as the Italian Renaissance, standing at the epicenter of the power games in which Europe’s kings and Italy’s warlords gambled for life-and-death stakes. Five centuries after their fall—a fall even more sudden than their rise to the
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Little, Brown Book Group Attrition
Book SynopsisThe First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing. Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and those managing the vast economy of industrialised warfare, Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict born out of industrial society was fought as it was. It was the first mass war in which the resources of the fully-mobilised societies strained every sinew in a conflict over ideals - and the humblest and highest were all caught up in the national enterprise. In a stunning narrative, this brilliant and necessary reassessment of the whole war cuts behind the myth-making to reveal the determination, organization and ambition on all sides.Trade ReviewA refreshingly balanced view . . . the great strength of Philpott's book is its magisterial overview of the whole war . . . a fine contribution to our growing understanding of the conflict -- Peter Parker * Daily Telegraph *A highly readable account . . . a great book for those who want to look behind the propaganda * Sunday Herald *Philpott's achievement is to present a view of The Great War as an attritional conflict in a very readable fashion. 'Attrition' is an accessible work for the general reader rather than a denesley argued mongraph...Attrition stands on its own merits, as an important contribution to an active and lively scholarly debateWilliam Philpott's boldly argued and engaging book is a timely rejoinder to simplistic views * Times Literary Supplement *A first-class overview of the whole war, and a useful addition to anyone's library * Military History *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Tank War
Book SynopsisFrom the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the ''Filthy Fifth'' grew - they revelled in their reputation for fighting by their own rules.The Tank War explains how Britain, having lost its advantage in tank warfare by 1939, regained ground through shifts in tactics and leadership methods, as well as the daring and bravery of the crews themselves. Overturning the received wisdom of much Second World War history, Mark Urban shows how the tank regiments'' advances were the equal of the feats of the German Panzer divisions.Drawing on a wealth of new material, from interviews with surviving soldiers to rarely seen archive material, this is an unflinchingly honest, unsentimental and often Trade ReviewA genuinely fresh perspective . . . shocking in its rawness . . . achieves the almost impossible feat of capturing something of the excess of emotion conjured up by the heat of battle * Spectator *
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Little, Brown Book Group Suffragettes
Book Synopsis* A comprehensive anthology of the long and bloody history of women's struggle to get the vote. Here is the story in the voices of the women themselves.Trade ReviewA cleverly assembled patchwork of press cuttings, diary entries and journal extracts comes together here to make up a colourful and moving narrative of the women's suffrage movement * Scotsman *A] fascinating anthology... what makes it so interesting is not just the coverage of the main events...but the lesser known details. * The Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group SheMerchants Buccaneers and Gentlewomen British
Book Synopsis''Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by deploying a riveting gallery of powerful and often eccentric women ranging from stowaways and runaways through courtesans and society beauties to Generals'' feisty wives and Viceroys'' waspish sisters. It is full of surprises and new material and completely engaging from beginning to end'' William Dalrymple The first British women to set foot in India did so in the very early seventeenth century, two and a half centuries before the Raj. Women made their way to India for exactly the same reasons men did - to carve out a better life for themselves. In the early days, India was a place where the slates of ''blotted pedigrees'' were wiped clean; bankrupts given a chance to make good; a taste for adventure satisfiedTrade ReviewSharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by deploying a riveting gallery of powerful and often eccentric women ranging from stowaways and runaways through courtesans and society beauties to Generals' feisty wives and Viceroys' waspish sisters. It is full of surprises and new material and completely engaging from beginning to end -- William DalrympleAbsolutely brilliant . . . remarkable women, until now almost unknown. I was so gripped I couldn't put it down -- Antonia FraserGoes beneath the surface of imperial male history . . . a cast of extraordinary women. Wonderful -- Anita AnandFascinating . . . I was swept along by Hickman's concise chapters and her crisp, wry style * The Times *Thrilling tales of some of our wild colonial women . . . There have been other studies of the British memsahibs but none so focused on the adventurous and unconventional, and none more conscientiously researched, historically sound and compellingly written. An excellent book -- John Keay * Evening Standard *[A] fascinating and informative book -- Virginia Nicholson * Sunday Times *[A] colourful, witty and elegantly written new perspective on British India through the eyes of some of the women who were there . . . Hickman gives us a wealth of entertaining details * Daily Mail *Rich in detail and full of astonishing stories * Country Life *Hickman deftly negotiates the shifting politics of time and place . . . Hickman has a novelist's touch -- Jane Robinson * Times Literary Supplement *A welcome corrective to Raj-dominated, male-heavy histories of Britain's relationship with India * History Revealed *Eye-popping and extremely readable -- Jenny Colgan * Spectator *A history of the bolshy, pioneering British women who sailed for India * The Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group Brave Hearted
Book SynopsisThe epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there''This book is a triumph'' AMANDA FOREMAN''Absolutely compelling'' CHRISTINA LAMB''A blazing view of the American story'' BETTANY HUGHES''Gripping, eye-opening'' EMMA DONOGHUE''Richly evocative... the survivors were heroines, all of them'' YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM''Beautifully written'' CLOVER STROUDHard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers travelling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys; African American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers - all had to be brave-hearted women.Trade ReviewBrave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transported into another universe of courage, loss, pain, and occasionally victory. This book is a triumph. * Amanda Foreman *A vivid, fascinating rag rug of cultural history that braids together stories usually kept apart . . . Gripping, eye-opening, enlightening -- Emma DonoghueThis book delivers a blazing 360 degree view of the American story. Each page is packed with gumption and grit and genius. -- Bettany HughesKatie Hickman has gathered a collection of intriguingly vivid first-hand accounts written by some of the women who ventured west. . . Hickman's Brave Hearted puts the rough texture of personal experience back into the big narrative of how the west was won. Along the way, she shows us what was lost. -- Lucy Lethbridge * Literary Review *Beautifully written, this gripping book explores the stories of the fierce women who helped shape the American West. -- Clover Stroud * Independent *In the past 50 years there has been an explosion of scholarly research that has served to dismantle those hoary old myths about the Wild West as a white male space in which women looked worried or sashayed into a saloon bar looking for trouble. In Brave Hearted Hickman makes deft and sensitive use of this new material. The result is a glorious patchwork . . . does these extraordinary women proud -- Kathryn Hughes * Sunday Times *In this richly evocative book, Hickman takes us to the crux of women's experiences in that fast- changing world, where opportunities for women were opening up in an often lawless atmosphere of greed, gambling, drinking and whoring. It was a rough ride, and the survivors were heroines, all of them. * Daily Mail *'Working mainly with published sources, [Hickman] has woven together an extraordinary range of women's first-person voices - we hear from more than fifty of them - into a gripping narrative.' * TLS *A triumphant narrative that brings many overlooked women into the spotlight. * Booklist *As easy to read as any Western with the added advantage of showing a new version of the Old West, one vital for readers to explore. * Library Journal *Full of heartrending accounts of courage and tragedy, this is a vital contribution to the history of America's frontier. * Publishers Weekly *An unforgettable cast of characters brings an epic tale to life. * BBC History Magazine *Absolutely compelling; telling the stories of women who for so many years have been written out of history, and making us completely rethink our image of the Wild West. -- Christina Lamb * Sunday Times *[A] wide-ranging survey of the multifaceted roles of women in the 19th-century settlement of the American West... Hickman writes sensitively... A welcome corrective to the long-skewed male-centric history of westward expansion. * Kirkus *A riveting new history.. Hickman's writing is exquisite; her background as a novelist brings these women into dramatic relief... A meticulous scholar, Hickman draws on diaries and memoirs to immerse us in these women's lives and offer important correctives... Brave Hearted is an alternative history of a frontier that was home for some and a fantasy for others long after the Census Bureau decided it was gone * Los Angeles Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group Brave Hearted
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west''Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transported into another universe of courage, loss, pain, and occasionally victory. This book is a triumph.'' Amanda Foreman ''This book delivers a blazing 360 degree view of the American story. Each page is packed with gumption and grit and genius.'' Bettany Hughes''Absolutely compelling; telling the stories of women who for so many years have been written out of history'' Christina Lamb, Sunday TimesWhether they were the hard-drinking hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns, ''ordinary'' wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the prairies pulling their handcarts behind them, Chinese slave-brides working in laundries, or the Native American women displaced by the massTrade ReviewBrave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transported into another universe of courage, loss, pain, and occasionally victory. This book is a triumph. * Amanda Foreman *A vivid, fascinating rag rug of cultural history that braids together stories usually kept apart . . . Gripping, eye-opening, enlightening -- Emma DonoghueThis book delivers a blazing 360 degree view of the American story. Each page is packed with gumption and grit and genius. -- Bettany HughesKatie Hickman has gathered a collection of intriguingly vivid first-hand accounts written by some of the women who ventured west. . . Hickman's Brave Hearted puts the rough texture of personal experience back into the big narrative of how the west was won. Along the way, she shows us what was lost. -- Lucy Lethbridge * Literary Review *Beautifully written, this gripping book explores the stories of the fierce women who helped shape the American West. -- Clover Stroud * Independent *In the past 50 years there has been an explosion of scholarly research that has served to dismantle those hoary old myths about the Wild West as a white male space in which women looked worried or sashayed into a saloon bar looking for trouble. In Brave Hearted Hickman makes deft and sensitive use of this new material. The result is a glorious patchwork . . . does these extraordinary women proud -- Kathryn Hughes * Sunday Times *In this richly evocative book, Hickman takes us to the crux of women's experiences in that fast- changing world, where opportunities for women were opening up in an often lawless atmosphere of greed, gambling, drinking and whoring. It was a rough ride, and the survivors were heroines, all of them. * Daily Mail *'Working mainly with published sources, [Hickman] has woven together an extraordinary range of women's first-person voices - we hear from more than fifty of them - into a gripping narrative.' * TLS *A triumphant narrative that brings many overlooked women into the spotlight. * Booklist *As easy to read as any Western with the added advantage of showing a new version of the Old West, one vital for readers to explore. * Library Journal *Full of heartrending accounts of courage and tragedy, this is a vital contribution to the history of America's frontier. * Publishers Weekly *An unforgettable cast of characters brings an epic tale to life. * BBC History Magazine *Absolutely compelling; telling the stories of women who for so many years have been written out of history, and making us completely rethink our image of the Wild West. -- Christina Lamb * Sunday Times *[A] wide-ranging survey of the multifaceted roles of women in the 19th-century settlement of the American West... Hickman writes sensitively... A welcome corrective to the long-skewed male-centric history of westward expansion. * Kirkus *A riveting new history.. Hickman's writing is exquisite; her background as a novelist brings these women into dramatic relief... A meticulous scholar, Hickman draws on diaries and memoirs to immerse us in these women's lives and offer important correctives... Brave Hearted is an alternative history of a frontier that was home for some and a fantasy for others long after the Census Bureau decided it was gone * Los Angeles Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Black Angels
Book SynopsisNew York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world''s deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure''s discovery.''It''s everything that I love. It''s about women whose names have been forgotten - until now. I am so passionate about it'' Sandi Toksvig, BBC Two Between the Covers''Wonderfully told... an invaluable restoration of another of history''s racially biased omissions'' Diana Evans''Their triumphant story has until now been almost completely neglected'' The BooksellerDuring those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at Sea View, New York''s largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with prTrade ReviewGripping * New York Times *I am blown away by this book ... this is a story I did not know ... these women risked their own lives. It is a fabulous story - everything that I love, it's untold history, it's looking at the world from a different perspective. This is a story that needs telling and it IS being told. It's about women whose names have been forgotten - until now. I am so passionate about it * Sandi Toksvig BBC Two Between the Covers *Wonderfully told, both informative and passionate, this is an invaluable restoration of another of history's racially biased omissions * Diana Evans *A breathless... illuminating conquest-of-disease narrative * Kirkus *Vivid... The nurses' tenacity in the face of harsh working conditions and pervasive racism is humbling and inspiring... A book that deserves reading and remembering in the pandemic age * New York Times Book Review *Their triumphant story has until now been almost completely neglected -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *I've never read anything like The Black Angels, a tale of medical horror and heroism that recalls The Hot Zone as much as it does Hidden Figures. Smilios plunges the reader into the festering tuberculosis wards of 1930s New York, where death was airborne, inevitable - until a few brave nurses changed the lives of millions... extraordinary * Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies *Immensely rewarding...[A] confluence of histories, encompassing public health, urban development, race, class, and social upheaval...[Smilios] blends all of the threads she followed into a big blistering narrative that takes readers into the lives of an exceptional group of individuals whose personal stories are as compelling as the disease they confronted was deadly. Informative, enthralling, and sometimes appalling, this is history at its best * Booklist, starred review *Edna, Missouria, and Virginia answered a call for nurses and changed the world. These courageous women who desegregated hospitals and tamed an airborne killer at last receive necessary, poignant recognition in Maria Smilios' exquisitely rendered history * Sarah Rose, author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II *With a detective's tenacity, Maria Smilios pays tribute to the Black Angels, that compassionate cadre of nurses whose meticulous record keeping helped buttress the clinical trials that led to a pivotal breakthrough in the treatment of tuberculosis. She weaves their personal journeys with their professional devotion to the indigent, incurable patients whose care became their cause even as they were unwelcome in most American hospitals because of their race * A'Lelia Bundles, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker *Extraordinary...Written with an astute grasp of the medical facts surrounding TB, [the] book eloquently highlights the humanity of the nurses who were recruited from the segregated South to provide care for people with TB in the hospital when nobody else would...Smilios is a rare combination of rigorous scientist and an exquisite writer...[A] must-read for anyone in the TB field but also for those who wish to gain a better understanding of the factors that drive current health disparities * The Lancet *Based on personal interviews and archival research, Smilios's poignant account exposes a prolonged and shameful episode in medical history * BBC History Magazine *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Light of Days Women Fighters of the Jewish
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power'' Philippe Sands''A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are remarkable'' Independent''Rescues a long-neglected aspect of history from oblivion, and puts paid to the idea of Jewish, and especially female, passivity during the Holocaust. It is uncompromising, written with passion - and it preserves truly significant knowledge. ... Judy Batalion has uncovered a trove of unknown or forgotten information about the Holocaust of genuine import and impact.'' Eva Hoffman, TLSOne of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland''s Jewish youth groups to resist the NTrade ReviewOriginal and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating powerResounding . . . a vigorous narrative that draws on interviews, diaries and other sources . . . a story much in need of telling * Kirkus Review *Judy Batalion has written a fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis. In The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance (Virago), Batalion tells the untold story of the 'ghetto girls' who carried out espionage missions, bombed German train lines and assassinated Gestapo chiefs. The individual tales of these courageous young women are remarkable * Independent *Groundbreaking . . . poignant . . . Batalion's collective biography provides a significant contribution to Holocaust history . . . Her welcome research and fluid storytelling fit a larger, still emerging historiography, which reveals the breadth of women's agency during armed conflicts and, as she writes: "A different version of the women-in-war story" -- Julie Wheelwright * History Today *Throughout the Second World War groups of Jewish women acted as couriers, smugglers, spies and partisans in the armed resistance to Nazi rule in Poland, but their stories have disappeared from that history. Judy Batalion's The Light of Days is a conscious attempt to restore that missing page . . . Batalion's book is passionately researched and written with the quick-cutting thrust of an action film -- John Phipps * Irish Times *Judy Batalion brings to light half-forgotten tales of astounding courage -- Economist[A] powerful book . . . encapsulates the overwhelming problems faced by young Jews in Poland during wartime . . . The Light of Days conjures up a world we barely know about: of Batalion's heroines, Renia and Zivia, Tosia and Frumka, Bela and Chajke. The actions of these young women, carefully brought back to life by Batalion, turn much of what we believe we know about the Holocaust on its head. -- Jenni Frazer * Jewish Chronicle *Remarkable and inspiring . . . thanks to Judy's meticulous research, these near century old stories of resistance in the face of overwhelming odds are about to be read once again * Daily Express *Rescues a long-neglected aspect of history from oblivion, and puts paid to the idea of Jewish, and especially female, passivity during the Holocaust. It is uncompromising, written with passion - and it preserves truly significant knowledge. ... Judy Batalion has uncovered a trove of unknown or forgotten information about the Holocaust of genuine import and impact. -- Eva Hoffman * TLS *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Light of Days
Book SynopsisOne of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland''s Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland - some still in their teens - became the heart of a wide-ranging resistance network that fought the Nazis. With courage, guile and nerves of steel, these ''ghetto girls'' smuggled guns in loaves of bread and coded intelligence messages in their plaited hair. They helped build life-saving systems of underground bunkers and sustained thousands of Jews in safe hiding places. They bribed Gestapo guards with liquor, assassinated Nazis and sabotaged German supply lines. The Light of Days at last reveals the real history of these incredible women whose courageous yet little-knownTrade ReviewOriginal and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating powerResounding . . . a vigorous narrative that draws on interviews, diaries and other sources . . . a story much in need of telling * Kirkus Review *Judy Batalion has written a fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis. In The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance (Virago), Batalion tells the untold story of the 'ghetto girls' who carried out espionage missions, bombed German train lines and assassinated Gestapo chiefs. The individual tales of these courageous young women are remarkable * Independent *Groundbreaking . . . poignant . . . Batalion's collective biography provides a significant contribution to Holocaust history . . . Her welcome research and fluid storytelling fit a larger, still emerging historiography, which reveals the breadth of women's agency during armed conflicts and, as she writes: "A different version of the women-in-war story" -- Julie Wheelwright * History Today *Throughout the Second World War groups of Jewish women acted as couriers, smugglers, spies and partisans in the armed resistance to Nazi rule in Poland, but their stories have disappeared from that history. Judy Batalion's The Light of Days is a conscious attempt to restore that missing page . . . Batalion's book is passionately researched and written with the quick-cutting thrust of an action film -- John Phipps * Irish Times *Judy Batalion brings to light half-forgotten tales of astounding courage -- Economist[A] powerful book . . . encapsulates the overwhelming problems faced by young Jews in Poland during wartime . . . The Light of Days conjures up a world we barely know about: of Batalion's heroines, Renia and Zivia, Tosia and Frumka, Bela and Chajke. The actions of these young women, carefully brought back to life by Batalion, turn much of what we believe we know about the Holocaust on its head. -- Jenni Frazer * Jewish Chronicle *Remarkable and inspiring . . . thanks to Judy's meticulous research, these near century old stories of resistance in the face of overwhelming odds are about to be read once again * Daily Express *Rescues a long-neglected aspect of history from oblivion, and puts paid to the idea of Jewish, and especially female, passivity during the Holocaust. It is uncompromising, written with passion - and it preserves truly significant knowledge. ... Judy Batalion has uncovered a trove of unknown or forgotten information about the Holocaust of genuine import and impact. -- Eva Hoffman * TLS *
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Little, Brown Book Group All the Rage
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Little, Brown Book Group The War The Infantry Knew
Book SynopsisSometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of an infantry battalion''s experience on the Western Front'' Daily Telegraph'' I have been waiting for a long time for someone to republish this classic. It is one of the most interesting and revealing books of its type and is a genuinely truthful and fascinating picture of the war as it was for the infantry'' John Keegan''A remarkably coherent narrative of the battalion''s experiences in diary form . . . a moving historical record which deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War'' Times Literary SupplementTrade ReviewSometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front * DAILY TELEGRAPH *John Keegan * 'A remarkably coherent narrative of the battalion's experiences in diary form ...a moving historical record which deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War’ *TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Little, Brown Book Group On History
Book SynopsisIn these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm''s lifelong concern with the relations between past, present and future. They deal, among many other subjects, with the problems of writing history, its abuses and the historian''s responsibilities; with the history of society and ''history from below''; with Marx and current historical trends or fashions; with Europe, the Russian Revolution and the descent into a world-wide barbarism that, increasing for most of the twentieth century, threatens to destroy the civilisation we have inherited from the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.These essays reveal a passionate belief in the importance of studying history, as well as displaying the incisive analysis, the breadth of allusion and the distinctive viewpoint for which this great hTrade ReviewEngaging...always instructive. THE OBSERVER Full of the author's characteristic merits ...authoritative and highly relevant. THE NEW STATESMAN Brilliant Sunday TIMES For sheer intelligence, Hobsbawm has no superior in the historical profession... On History is of great interest for the light it throws on one of the most powerful minds of our time. It should be read by anyone who cares how history should be written and why it matters. Guardian
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Little, Brown Book Group Uncommon People
Book Synopsis* Classic essays on the history of radical protest.Trade ReviewQuite billiant...because he assembles his arguments with knowledge ranging across both countries and centuries, they have a rare potency * Scotsman *Eric Hobsbawn has become informally enthroned as Britain's leading historian...ge combines a novelist's narrative power with an unrivalled command of detail and source -- Neal Ascherson * Observer *Demonstrating that it is possible to be both erudite and accessible, he turns his attention to the "uncommon people" of the 18th and 19th centuries... [Hobsbawm] provides a brilliant deconstruction of the popular idea that revolution and sexual freedom are intrinsically connected. * SUNDAY TIMES *Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book. * OBSERVER *One of the outstanding historians of our age * Independent on Sunday *
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