The Bodley Head
Zepplin Nights
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When one thinks of London and war, one inevitably thinks of the Blitz. But London historian Jerry White has written an account of ...Read Review
SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940-1946
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We now know much more about The Special Operations Executive than its official historian, MRD Foot, could reveal in this book when first ...Read Review
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
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This book follows the history of England’s Catholics between the accession of Elizabeth I and the Gunpowder Plot, through the lives of ...Read Review
Europe: A History
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This is a reissue of a book originally published in 1996, with a second preface added in 1997. Disappointingly, given everything that has happened in ...Read Review
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE-1492 CE
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This elegant history is, in the author’s words, ‘one of the heroism of everyday life as much as that of the grand ...Read Review
The Faithful Executioner
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In the latter half of the 16th Century and the first years of the 17th, Meister Frantz Schmidt was the official executioner for ...Read Review
Iron, Steam and Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution
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One of the highlights of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics was the moment at which the green and pleasant land of ...Read Review
The Undiscovered Country
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Until quite recently, the subject of death was not a subject that attracted considerable academic interest. It was left mostly to the church ...Read Review
Nelson: The Sword of Albion
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“Then something surprising happened,” writes this beguiling author. It certainly does, not only on that occasion but throughout. Falling in love with The ...Read Review
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
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‘Sometimes the past will inspire you and sometimes it will leave you weeping.’ This is history for everyone: the political and religious upheavals ...Read Review