Aelfred's Britain - War and Peace in the Viking Age (Adams Max)(Paperback / softback)

Aelfred's Britain - War and Peace in the Viking Age (Adams Max)(Paperback / softback)

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in

Viking Britain - A History (Williams Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.To many, the word `Viking' brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of

Never Again - Britain 1945-1951 (Hennessy Peter)(Paperback / softback)

At the end of the Second World War Britain was in flux. It was an age of rationing and rebuilding; when hope for a better future contrasted with the horror of war. This title recreates the mood and feel of life in early post-war

The Prometheans: John Martin and the Generation That Stole the Future (Adams Max)(Paperback)

The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely unschooled, they were part of a new generation of artists, scientists and inventors who witnessed the creation of the modern world. William, the eldest,

GB84 (Peace David (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book presents a fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's

Imperial Twilight - The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Platt Stephen R. (Author))(Paperback / softback)

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford

Viking London (Williams Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age (Throp Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age is a fascinating account of British history from a period that begins around 840,000 when hunter-gatherers were just beginning to use tools, up to 55BC when the Romans first arrived in

Trouble With Peace - The Gripping Sunday Times Bestselling Fantasy (Abercrombie Joe)(Paperback / softback)

War. Politics. Revolution. The Age of Madness has arrived . . . Second in the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy, THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE is the next instalment of a series which is revolutionising fantasy . . . Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion. Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . . Savine dan Glokta,

Pax Romana - War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World (Goldsworthy Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

Perfect Weapon - war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age (Sanger David)(Paperback / softback)

War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Turchin Peter)(Paperback)

From the author of End Times In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society's capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that

In the Land of Giants (Adams Max)(Paperback / softback)

When I Was a Nipper - The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain (Titchmarsh Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. This title also takes a broader perspective, creating a detailed and evocative portrait of a way of life that is fast

Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Adams Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Funnier than Psycho . . . more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge . . . shorter than War and Peace . . . the second Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the

Viking Age Iceland (Byock Jesse)(Paperback / softback)

The popular image of the Viking Age is of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. In this fascinating history, Jesse Byock shows that Norse society in Iceland was actually an independent one-almost a republican Free State, without warlords or kings

War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad (Bin Muhammad Ghazi)(Paperback)

'War and Peace in Islam' reveals the real meaning of jihad and redtifies many of the misunderstandings that surround both it and Islam's relation with the

Peace And War - The Omnibus Edition/Forever Peace, Forever Free, Forever War (Haldeman Joe)(Paperback / softback)

Together in one volume for the first time ever - the classic novel of epic future conflict THE FOREVER WAR, its sequel FOREVER FREE, and the companion novel FOREVER

Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain, 1945-90 (Mangion Carmen M.)(Paperback)

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global

War, Peace and the Women's Institute (Lawson-Reay Barbara)(Paperback / softback)

Pax: War and Peace in Rome´s Golden Age - Tom Holland

The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest and

Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives (Caddick-Adams Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theatres of war which established them as two of the greatest captains of their age. This title tracks and compares their

Virtual History - Alternatives and Counterfactuals (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback / softback)

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What if there had been no American Revolution? And what if John F Kennedy had lived? This

Good War - Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan (Fairweather Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph, a 'good war' in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. This book explores the intentions and hubris that caused the West's strategy in Afghanistan to flounder, refuting the long-held notion that the war could have been