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Pursuit
The Sinking of the "Bismark"

Author: Ludovic Kennedy
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1975

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After Such Knowledge

Author: Eva Hoffman
Publication Date: 3 March 2005

As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. Through personal reflections and explorations of the historical, psychological and moral implications of the second-generation experience, the author talks about the legacy of the Holocaust.

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1812
Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

Author: Adam Zamoyski
Publication Date: 4 April 2005

Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.

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Roses from the Earth
The Biography of Anne Frank

Author: Carol Ann Lee
Publication Date: 30 March 2000

This biography of Anne Frank is aimed at adults and gives an account of Anne's short life before, during and after the diary. It presents the story of what happened to Anne in the camps.

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A Life in Secrets
Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

Author: Sarah Helm
Publication Date: 1 June 2006

The definitive account of an absorbing double mystery: the fates of the missing female SOE agents and the truth about the woman who searched for them

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Black Sea

Author: Neal Ascherson
Publication Date: 11 July 1996

This title is a homage to the ocean and its shores, and a meditation on Eurasian history from the earliest times to the present. It evokes the culture, history and politics of the volatile region along these shores.

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Destination Europe
The Political and Economic Growth of a Continent

Author: Kjell M. Torbiorn
Publication Date: 4 December 2003

This study interprets and interrelates the major political, economic and security developments in Europe - including transatlantic relations - from the end of World War II up until the present time, and looks ahead to how the continent may evolve politically in the future.

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Documents and Debates - 19th Century Europe

Author: Stephen Brooks
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1984

The series concentrates on introducing the student to a wider range of historical sources than that to be found in the standard textbook. The extracts have been chosen to illustrate the changing opinions of historians on major topics, and to encourage the student to assess the nature and reliability of evidence....

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Oradour
The Road to the Massacre

Author: Robin Mackness
Publication Date: 25 August 1994

A true tale of modern high finance and treachery, in which the secret of a wartime tragedy is revealed as the author investigates the massacre of over 600 people by the SS in a remote village in France in June 1944 - an investigation which led to his imprisonment.

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Forgotten Voices of the Second World War
A New History of the Second World War and the Men and Women Who Were There

Author: Max Arthur
Publication Date: 5 May 2005

The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. Continuing through from D-Day, to the Rhine Crossing and the dropping of the Atom Bomb in August 1945, this book is a testimony to one of the world's dreadful conflicts.

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Millennium
The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author: Tom Holland
Publication Date: 2 July 2009

* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

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Byzantium
The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Author: Judith Herrin
Publication Date: 3 April 2008

For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. This book provides various short chapters that focus on a theme, such as a building (the great church of Hagia Sophia), a clash over religion (iconoclasm), sex and power (the role of eunuchs), and a symbol of civilization (the fork).

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Author: Anne Frank
Publication Date: 27 March 1997

Anne Frank kept a diary from 1942 to 1944. Initially she wrote it for herself, but when a member of the Dutch government mentioned that he was going to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering under German occupation, Anne decided that after the war she would publish a book based on her diary.

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The Spanish Civil War
Reaction, Revolution and Revenge

Author: Paul Preston
Publication Date: 5 June 2006

A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.

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Silent Rebels

Author: Marion Schreiber
Publication Date: 12 June 2003

This work tells the amazing true story of how three young people stopped a train and rescued more than 200 Jews on their way to the Auschwitz death camp. It draws on private documents, archive material and police reports.

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The THE IRON CURTAIN
Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War

Author: Fraser J. HARBUTT
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1988

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Early Greece

Author: Oswyn Murray
Publication Date: 26 April 1993

Within the space of 300 years, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean. This book places the development of Greece in the context of Mediterranean civilization.

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Forgotten Land
Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

Author: Max Egremont
Publication Date: 3 June 2011

In his most personal book yet, Max Egremont explores a once-thriving and beautiful land that now lives only in history and myth

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Germania
A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

Author: Simon Winder
Publication Date: 1 October 2010

'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

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The Dreyfus Affair
The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History

Author: Piers Paul Read
Publication Date: 14 February 2013

A compelling, new and highly accessible account of one of the most high-profile and influential miscarriages of justice in French history: The Dreyfus Affair

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The Last Assault
1944 - The Battle of the Bulge Reassessed

Author: Charles Whiting
Publication Date: 30 October 2004

It has generally been assumed by historians of the Second World War that the Americans were caught completely unawares by th...

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Raise the White Flag
Life in Occupied Jersey

Author: Donald P. Journeaux
Publication Date: 2 May 1995

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The Weimar Republic

Author: John Hiden
Publication Date: 9 May 1996

This text argues that the Weimar Republic was not doomed from its conception at the Treaty of Versailles and therefore it was a complex set of factors which allowed Hitler to rise to power. This edition features an updated and extended bibliography and revision throughout the text.

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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - And After

Author: R. J. Crampton
Publication Date: 28 August 1997

This comprehensive examination of Eastern Europe by an expert in the field, provides a summary of the political evolution of the area which will be invaluable to the student and general reader alike.

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Defiance

Author: Nechama Tec
Publication Date: 11 December 2008

A holocaust survivor tells of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II. Tec describes an extraordinary hidden forest community of 1,200 Jews who were led by peasant-turned-partisan Tuvia Bielski.

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