The Bodley Head
Nelson: The Sword of Albion
“Then something surprising happened,” writes this beguiling author. It certainly does, not only on that occasion but throughout. Falling in…
England in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing
This is the third in a history of London from the 18th century to the 20th by Jerry White, professor…
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
‘Sometimes the past will inspire you and sometimes it will leave you weeping.’ This is history for everyone: the political…
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that…
For Honour and Fame
The subtitle is Chivalry in England, 1066-1500, but this book deals with the reality, not the romantic image of colourful…
Visions of England
This is a short, but cogently argued book, almost a monograph, which asks the question of just what is England…
Bloodlands
The bloodlands are defined by the author as that part of central Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic…
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
Until I read this book, the allied operations in Burma were but a postscript to the American island-hopping war in…
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939-45
This is an absorbing account of what life was like for the ordinary Berliner during the six years of the…
The Scourging Angel
The author has written a comprehensive study of the Great Death (as it was called at the time – The…
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