November 1918 - Triumph and Tragedy in the Final Days of WW1 (Brook-Shepherd Gordon)(Paperback / softback)

November 1918 - Triumph and Tragedy in the Final Days of WW1 (Brook-Shepherd Gordon)(Paperback / softback)

Hundred Days - The End of the Great War (Lloyd Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, it traces the story of the next four months, which

My Promised Land - the triumph and tragedy of Israel (Shavit Ari)(Paperback / softback)

Ekaterinburg - The Last Days of the Romanovs (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback / softback)

A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the

Division Of The Spoils (Scott Paul)(Paperback / softback)

BOOK FOUR OF THE RAJ QUARTETThe British Raj in India is in its final days. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their future must be made and final goodbyes must be said, all against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods of social change the world has

Spy's Daughter (Brookes Adam)(Paperback / softback)

In the third and final novel in the multi-award-nominated Philip Mangan thriller series, perfect for fans of John le Carre's The Night Manager, journalist turned MI6 agent Philip Mangan finds that in protecting a talented young woman, he becomes a target of more than one secret service 'Authentic,

Pull of the Stars (Donoghue Emma)(Paperback / softback)

Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and

Triumph in Dust (Ross Ian)(Paperback / softback)

In the final instalment of the Twilight of Empire series, Aurelius Castus is ordered out of retirement to confront the King of Persia's challenge to Rome's authority in the

AWS Classics Things Fall Apart (Achebe Chinua)(Paperback / softback)

'...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ... a very simple but excellent novel'. The Observer Also available in an extended edition including essays, maps and

Burial Rites (Kent Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites follows the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in

And in the End - The Last Days of the Beatles (McNab Ken)(Paperback / softback)

The Americans from the Ardennes to Ve Day (Blades Brooke S.)(Paperback)

The third and final volume of the author's Americans in North-West Europe series covers the historic period December 1944 to May 1945.Launched in December 1944, the Nazis' Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of the Bulge, was one of the most dangerous periods of the War. During six weeks of

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters and Caught in the Revolution, The Last Days of the Romanovs is Helen Rappaport's riveting, moment-by-moment account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family. 'The brutal 1918 massacre of the Romanov family may be

The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering which underlies

The Last Days of Steam in North East England (Woods George)(Paperback)

An evocative collection of photographs documenting the final days of steam on the railways of North East

In the Night of Time (Molina Antonio Munoz)(Paperback / softback)

The internationally bestselling tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil

Bobby in Naziland: A Tale of Flatbush (Rosen Robert)(Paperback)

A darkly comic and deeply moving memoir of a New York City lost to timeFrom the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, Bobby in Naziland is an unsentimental journey through one Brooklyn neighborhood. Though a 20-minute and 15-cent subway ride from

Triumph and Tragedy - The Second World War (Churchill Winston)(Paperback / softback)

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World

Playing by Ear - Reflections on Sound and Music (Brook Peter)(Paperback / softback)

In this collection of new essays, the world-renowned director Peter Brook offers unique and personal insights into sound and music - from the surprising impact of Broadway musicals on his famous Midsummer Night's Dream, to the allure of applause, and on to the ultimate empty space:

The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (Clare Horatio)(Paperback)

As November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days tighten into shorter hours, winter's occupation begins. Preparing for winter has its own rhythms, as old as our exchanges with the land. Of all the seasons, it draws us together. But winter can be tough. It is a time of introspection, of looking

Execution (Smith Alexander Gordon)(Paperback)

The explosive fifth and final book in the Escape from Furnace series features a shocking showdown!Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover the whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, leaving nothing but murder in their wake

Princetown and the Conscientious Objectors of WW1 (Barker Pip)(Paperback)

Over 16,000 men refused to fight in WW1 and became known as Conscientious Objectors.Their initial incarceration in prison was deemed unsuitable for many and they were then sent to work centres to be engaged on work of national importance.One such work centre was in the village of Princetown, Devon,

The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Neider Charles)(Paperback)

'A book filled with richnesses of humor and tragedy of disappointment and triumph, of sweetness and bitterness, and all in that unsurpassed American prose.'--New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewMark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his

Brothers to the Death (Shan Darren)(Paperback / softback)

The fourth and final instalment in the epic saga of Larten Crepsley - vampire, hero and victim of