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SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940-1946
We now know much more about The Special Operations Executive than its official historian, MRD Foot, could reveal in this…
Zepplin Nights
When one thinks of London and war, one inevitably thinks of the Blitz. But London historian Jerry White has written…
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
This book follows the history of England’s Catholics between the accession of Elizabeth I and the Gunpowder Plot, through the…
Europe: A History
This is a reissue of a book originally published in 1996, with a second preface added in 1997. Disappointingly, given…
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE-1492 CE
This elegant history is, in the author’s words, ‘one of the heroism of everyday life as much as that of…
Iron, Steam and Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution
One of the highlights of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics was the moment at which the green…
The Faithful Executioner
In the latter half of the 16th Century and the first years of the 17th, Meister Frantz Schmidt was the…
The Undiscovered Country
Until quite recently, the subject of death was not a subject that attracted considerable academic interest. It was left mostly…
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…
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