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The Elder Sons of George III: Kings, Princes, and a Grand Old Duke (Curzon Catherine)

Using original letters, diaries and newspapers, the royal family and the insular world of the Georgian court are brought vividly back to life. For nearly 60 years, King George III reigned over a tumultuous kingdom. His health and realm were in turmoil, while family life held challenges of its own. ...

On Grand Strategy

For over two decades, a select group of students at Yale University has been admitted into the year-long 'Grand Strategy' seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis and Paul Kennedy. The purpose of the seminar is to furnish these students with a grounding in strategic decision-making in the face of crisis,...

The Light Behind The Window

Unlocking the past is the key to the future . . .From Lucinda Riley, the international bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series, The Light Behind the Window is a breathtaking historical romance about love, war and, above all, forgiveness. South of France, present day. After the death of her gl...

The Decline of the West (Spengler Oswald)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly...

Money, Money, Money!: A Short Lesson in Economics (Enzensberger Hans Magnus)

The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that theres never enough of it in their family. Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt F descends on the city. After repeated cycles of boom and bust, profligacy ...

Serve To Win (Novak Djokovic)

In 2011, Novak Djokovic had what has been called the greatest single season ever by a professional tennis player. He won ten titles, three Grand Slams and 43 consecutive matches. Remarkably, less than two years earlier, this champion could barely complete a tournament. How did a player once plagued ...

The Great Divide

?‘A gorgeous, sweeping epic’ ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ‘One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY ‘Spectacular’ JOANNE SEFTON ‘I didn’t want it to end’ SARA SHERIDAN A breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and casting light on ...

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The Wars of Justinian I (Whitby Michael)

Justinian I was the last great conquering Roman emperor, who dramatically increased the size of his realm although he never actually led an army in person. His long reign (527-565) was devoted to the challenging project of renovatio imperii, that is the renovation of Empire. His was the will and vis...

Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes (Steer Nigel)

Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War. On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and ex...