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‘Extraordinary…serious naval history and a detective story, told with passion.’ The Times ‘Vividly detailed…compelling yet comprehensive.’ Los Angeles Times ‘Simply outstanding.’ Booklist (starred review) ‘Gripping… This yarn has it all.’ USA Today The sinking of…

It was Hitler’s boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has…

In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen SS division…

Stained glass has been one of the chief glories of Britain’s churches since Norman times. Stained glass windows developed through the middle ages, as new techniques were introduced, and the art of storytelling in glass…

From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS ‘Impeccably researched, superbly told – by far the best book on the SAS in World War II’…

Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis’ extermination…

An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short History The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of…

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK’s most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could…

The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognised worldwide. Its roles in Poland and the Battles of France and the…