English History: Strange but True - Prijzen

Colossus Reborn

In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941....

Deliverance at Diepholz

With candor and humor, American infantryman Jack Dower describes his narly fifteen months spent as an unwilling guest of the Third Reich after his company lost its way behind enemy lines near Anzio, I...

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes...

Echoes From The Holocaust

During the most difficult times of World War II, Mira Kimmelman writes, I wondered whether the world really knew what was happening to us. I lived in total isolation, not knowing what was taking pla...

Lost Tribe

The publication commanded four reprints and inspired two major street reunions. A hugely popular history course based on the title led to the formation of an Everton Historic Society. It is not surpri...

Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Hornchurch Scramble

Taking the reader through World War I (as Sutton's Farm), when early RFC pilots were hailed as the knights of the air, through the 1930s to the outbreak of war, household names abound - Leefe Robinson...

Alton

A history of Alton

Leaving Alexandria

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained fo...

Wander Through Wartime London

Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb...

Rocket And Groot

It's Rocket and Groot Book: Keep on Truckin'! and they are taking it to the next level as they continue their journey through the cosmos defeating baddies. Expect more zaniness, more chaos, more Rocke...

In Her Hands

Presents the life of the African American sculptor Augusta Savage, who overcame many obstacles as a young woman to become a premier female sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance.