Hermine: An Empress in Exile: The Untold Story of the Kaiser's Second Wife (Bloks Moniek)(Paperback)

Hermine: An Empress in Exile: The Untold Story of the Kaiser's Second Wife (Bloks Moniek)(Paperback)

Hermine Reuss of Greiz is perhaps better known as the second wife of the Kaiser (Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany) whom she married shortly after the death of his first wife Auguste Viktoria and while he was in exile in the Netherlands. She was by then a widow herself with young children. She was

My Life With John Steinbeck - The story of John Steinbeck's forgotten wife(Paperback / softback)

For the first time the story of John Steinbeck's forgotten second wife unmentioned in standard editions of his classics such as The Grapes of Wrath. Their 1943 war time marriage ended when she divorced him in 1948. Smart, adventurous and in love, she at first matched Steinbeck's zest for 'on the

Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Higginbotham Adam)(Paperback / softback)

The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History (Greene Andy)(Paperback)

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The untold stories behind The Office, one of the most iconic television shows of the twenty-first century, told by its creators, writers, and actors When did you last hang out with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin? It might have been

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Kiernan Denise)(Paperback)

The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. 'The best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported, fluidly written, and a

Mission 101 - The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia (McNab Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War's most daring operations and the first for Britain's legendry Special Operations

Striking Back: The Untold Story of an Anti-Apartheid Striker (Manning Mary)(Paperback)

Exile Music (Steil Jennifer)(Paperback)

Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with

Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy (Purnell Sonia)(Paperback / softback)

The New York Times bestseller: the incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy, written by acclaimed biographer Sonia

Avatar: The Next Shadow (Barlow Jeremy)(Paperback)

Clan rivalries erupt amid turmoil in an untold story set immediately after the events of James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster film Avatar Jake Sully maintains his position as leader of the Omatikaya Na'vi tribe, but with their Hometree destroyed, he begins to doubt his place among them. As the Na'vi

Dunera Lives, 2: Profiles (Bunyan Carol)(Paperback)

The story of the 'Dunera Boys' is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000 men suffered through British internment in camps at Hay, Tatura, and Orange is well known. Less familiar is the tale of what happened to them

Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy (Nerburn Kent)(Paperback)

Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men,

Airborne (Radcliffe Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the Second World War as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary young man in quite extraordinary

Girl in the Blue Coat (Hesse Monica)(Paperback / softback)

The missing girl is Jewish. I need you to find her before the Nazis do. An unforgettable story of bravery, grief and love in impossible

The Big Turnip (Hughes Monica)(Paperback)

A wordless retelling of the classic story, in which farmer, his family and friends try to pull up an enormous

Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front - An Untold Story of World War II (Plokhy Serhii)(Paperback / softback)

Among the Kings: The Unknown Warrior, an Untold Story (Scott Mark)(Paperback)

It was the war to end all wars and became one of the bloodiest and cruellest conflicts in history.Into the hands of author Mark Scott came a poignant survivor of those nightmare years - a notebook carried through the trenches by his great grandfather, Jimmy Scott, nestled in the pocket of his

Empress Orchid (Min Anchee)(Paperback / softback)

An erotic story of Imperial China from the author of 'Red Azalea' and 'Becoming Madame

Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North (Serreze Mark C.)(Paperback)

An insider account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The

The Story of God, the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible (Gladding Sean)(Paperback)

The ever present ache of exile rises above the comforting sounds of the river, as the image of the house of the LORD in ruins breaks the peace. . . . Despite the warmth of the fire, he feels a chill. He wraps his cloak around him and looks into the eager faces of his people, then closes his eyes

Eugenie: The Empress and her Empire (Seward Desmond)(Paperback)

From 1853 to 1870 Eug nie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. The last woman to reign over France, she personifies the allure glimpsed in Winterhalter's portraits and the music of Jacques Offenbach. It was 'eighteen years of

Two Weeks In November - The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe (Rogers Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History (Holt Nathalia)(Paperback)

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, 'richly detailed' story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures). From Snow White to Moana, from

Codename Suzette - An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris (Nelson Anne)(Paperback / softback)

The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World