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The Fight in the Clouds - The Extraordinary Combat Experience of P-51 Mustang Pilots During World War II (Paperback): James P.... The Fight in the Clouds - The Extraordinary Combat Experience of P-51 Mustang Pilots During World War II (Paperback)
James P. Busha
R770 R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Save R135 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Three-Cornered War - The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Paperback): Megan Kate Nelson The Three-Cornered War - The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Paperback)
Megan Kate Nelson
R476 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethel Rosenberg - An American Tragedy (Paperback): Anne Sebba Ethel Rosenberg - An American Tragedy (Paperback)
Anne Sebba
R498 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Paperback): Iain MacGregor Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Paperback)
Iain MacGregor
R499 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Upswing - How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Paperback): Robert D. Putnam The Upswing - How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Paperback)
Robert D. Putnam; As told to Shaylyn Romney Garrett
R538 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Priscilla - The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (Paperback): 'Nicholas Shakespeare Priscilla - The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (Paperback)
'Nicholas Shakespeare
R439 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.

When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, journals and photographs, surrounded by suitors and living the precarious existence of a British citizen in a country controlled by the enemy during World War II.

As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated.

Piecing together fragments of his aunt's remarkable and tragic story, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and a spellbinding slice of history.

The Siege of Caerlaverock (Paperback): Barbara Henderson The Siege of Caerlaverock (Paperback)
Barbara Henderson
R160 Discovery Miles 1 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

WINNER YOUNG QUILLS AWARD BEST HISTORICAL FICTION 2021 12-year-old Ada is a laundress of little consequence but the new castle commander Brian de Berclay has his evil eye on her. Perhaps she shouldn't have secretly fed the young prisoner in the tower. But when the King of England crosses the border with an army of over 3000 strong, Ada, her friend Godfrey and all at Caerlaverock suddenly find themselves under attack, with only 60 men for protection. Soon, rocks and flaming arrows rain from the sky over Castle Caerlaverock - and Ada has a dangerous choice to make.

Morning of Fire - America's Epic First Journey Into the Pacific (Paperback): Scott Ridley Morning of Fire - America's Epic First Journey Into the Pacific (Paperback)
Scott Ridley
R645 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Forgotten True Story of America's Daring First Exploration of the Pacific

Just four years after the Revolutionary War and more than a decade before Lewis and Clark's expedition, a remarkable--but now forgotten--plan was hatched along the docks of Boston Harbor. Two ships carrying the flag of the newly formed United States would be dispatched in 1787 on a landmark adventure around South America's Cape Horn and into the largely uncharted waters of the Pacific Ocean, far past the western edge of the continent. The man chosen to lead the expedition was Captain John Kendrick, a master navigator who had made his name as a charismatic privateer during the Revolution. On the harrowing seven-year voyage that followed, Kendrick would establish the first American outpost in the remote Pacific Northwest, sail into a deadly cauldron of intertribal war in the Hawaiian Islands, wage a single-ship campaign to hold off advances of the British and Spanish empires, and narrowly escape capture by samurai in Japan before meeting his own violent and tragic end thousands of miles from home. Brilliantly brought to life by historian Scott Ridley, Morning of Fire is a startling rediscovery of a thrilling lost chapter of American history.

The Dirty Tricks Department - The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare... The Dirty Tricks Department - The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare (Hardcover)
John Lisle
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a makeshift laboratory built on a golf course in Maryland, chemist Stanley Lovell led a secret team of scientists that developed the secret gadgets and weapons of the Second World War. Their 'Dirty Tricks Department' was the real-life equivalent of James Bond's legendary Q Branch. If a spy or saboteur needed a forged passport for cover, a silent pistol for executions, an incendiary device for starting fires, or a cyanide pill to kill themselves with before being captured alive, the scientists created it. Moreover, they developed poisons to assassinate foreign leaders, chemical and biological weapons to deploy against enemy soldiers, and truth drugs to interrogate prisoners of war. The Dirty Tricks Department is the first book to focus on the daring, exciting, and often tragic exploits of the men and women who made and used these devices. Lovell and his team exerted a disproportionally large influence on history. Not only were they integral to the Allied victory, but they left a dark legacy that has, until now, gone mainly unacknowledged.

Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside (Hardcover): Rebecca Smith Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside (Hardcover)
Rebecca Smith
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Starting with Rebecca Smith's own family history - foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal - Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed. As industry has transformed - mines closing, country estates shrinking, farmers struggling to make profit on a pint of milk, holiday lets increasing so relentlessly that local people can no longer live where they were born - we are led to question the legacy of the countryside in all our lives. This is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the countryside, whose family owes something to a bygone trade, or who is interested in the future of rural Britain.

The Red Baron - The Graphic History of Richthofen's Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI (Paperback): Wayne Vansant The Red Baron - The Graphic History of Richthofen's Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI (Paperback)
Wayne Vansant
R505 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R92 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "The Red Baron," graphic artist and author Wayne Vansant illustrates the incredible story of Manfred von Richthofen, whose unparalleled piloting prowess as a member of the Imperial German Army Air Service made him a World War I celebrity, both in the air and on the ground. In his signature style, enjoyed by readers of "Normandy" and "Bombing Nazi Germany," Vansant beautifully depicts the fearsome intelligence and mid-flight awareness that would earn Richthofen eighty documented air combat victories over the Western Front in the halcyon days of military aviation. From his beginnings as cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to the years he spent commanding Jasta 11 from the cockpit of his fabled red plane, to his eventual leadership of the ultra-mobile Jagdgeschwader 1 (aptly nicknamed "Richtofen's Flying Circus" by nervous foes because of the group's colorful airplanes and mobile airfields), "The Red Baron" brings the story of this legendary figure to life. Richthofen died young under controversial circumstances, but the Red Baron's astonishing skill and tactical acumen lived on far long after his death and helped usher in a new type of warfare that would reign supreme twenty-five years later: war in the air.

To D-Day and Back - Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life as a World War II POW: a Memoir (Paperback):... To D-Day and Back - Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life as a World War II POW: a Memoir (Paperback)
Bob Bearden
R519 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stolen - Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Paperback): Richard Bell Stolen - Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Paperback)
Richard Bell
R489 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Cure for Darkness - The Story of Depression and How We Treat It (Paperback): Alex Riley A Cure for Darkness - The Story of Depression and How We Treat It (Paperback)
Alex Riley
R545 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Greatest Invention - A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Paperback): Silvia Ferrara The Greatest Invention - A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Paperback)
Silvia Ferrara; Translated by Todd Portnowitz
R299 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R65 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' The Spectator This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in fact, it has many beginnings, not only in Mesopotamia, 3,100 years before the birth of Christ, but also in China, Egypt and Central America - and it certainly has a middle, one that snakes through the painted petroglyphs of Easter Island, through the great machines of empires and across the desks of inspired, brilliant scholars, the end of the story remains to be written. The invention of writing allowed humans to create a record of their lives and to persist past the limits of their lifetimes. In the shadows and swirls of ancient inscriptions, we can decipher the stories they sought to record, but we can also tease out the timeless truths of human nature, of our ceaseless drive to connect, create and be remembered. The Greatest Invention chronicles an uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research and the faint, fleeting echo of writing's future. Professor Silvia Ferrara, a modern-day adventurer who travels the world studying ancient texts, takes us along with her; we touch the knotted, coloured strings of the Incan khipu and consider the case of the Phaistos disk. Ferrara takes us to the cutting edge of decipherment, where high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye, and further still, to gaze at the outline of writing's future. The Greatest Invention lifts the words off every page and changes the contours of the world around us - just keep reading. 'The Greatest Invention is a celebration not of achievements, but of moments of illumination and "the most important thing in the world: our desire to be understood".' TLS

The Madman's Gallery - The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities From the History of Art (Hardcover):... The Madman's Gallery - The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities From the History of Art (Hardcover)
Edward Brooke-hitching
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and other artistic oddities ever made. From the author of the bestseller The Madman's Library (SundayTimes Literature Book of the Year 2020, Radio 4 Book of the Week) comes an extraordinary new illustrated collection. This unique exhibition gathers more than a hundred magnificent works, each chosen for their striking beauty, weirdness and captivating story behind their creation. Obscure and forgotten treasures sit alongside famous masterpieces with secret stories to tell. Here are Doom paintings, screaming sculptures, magical manuscripts, impossible architecture, dog-headed saints, angel musketeers and the first portrait of a cannibal. Stolen art, outsider art, ghost art, revenge art, and art painted at the bottom of the sea take their place alongside scandalous art, forgeries and hoaxes, art of dreams and nightmares, and cryptic paintings yet to be decoded. Discover the remarkable Elizabethan portraits of men in flames, the mystery of the nude Mona Lisa, the gruesome ingredients of lost pigments, the werewolf legion of the Roman army, and the Italian monk who levitated so often he's recognised as the patron saint of aeroplane passengers. From prehistoric cave art to portraits painted by artificial intelligence, The Madman's Gallery draws on a remarkable depth of research and variety of images to form a book that surprises at every turn, and ultimately serves to celebrate the endless power and creativity of human imagination. '...a feast of artistic curiosities' - The Telegraph 'What that last book did for bibliophiles, this new, beautifully produced and elegantly written anthology does for art lovers ... The research that has gone into this is prodigious, but Brooke-Hitching loves storytelling even more than scholarship, and he has a gift for it.' - The Spectator 'Extraordinary' - Artists & Illustrators

The Immortals - The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-Inspiring Rescue... The Immortals - The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-Inspiring Rescue (Hardcover)
Steven T Collis
R674 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Save R110 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
With Napoleon at St Helena (Paperback): John Stokoe With Napoleon at St Helena (Paperback)
John Stokoe
R511 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R91 (18%) Out of stock

Nearing the end of his career as a ship surgeon, he agreed in 1817 to take a three year posting to St Helena. Stokoe set out for St Helena on HMS Conqueror in 1817. At St Helena there was discord following the Governor, Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe's controversial decision to dismiss Napoleon's doctor, Barry O'Mara. About this time, Napoleon asked that Mr Stokoe, who had once attended him and who he understood was returning to St Helena, might attend him again 'or would the Governor authorize some other English doctor to come, providing he sign similar conditions as had been accepted by Stokoe in the past.' Immediately after, Mr Stokoe arrived at St Helena, was put under arrest and tried on varying counts-seven in all. The whole was found proven. The third indictment read, 'That he had signed a paper purporting to be a bulletin of General Bonaparte's health, and divulged the same to the General and his attendants contrary to orders, ' and the seventh, 'That he had contrary to his duty, and the character of a British Naval Officer, communicated to General Bonaparte or his attendant an infamous and calumnious imputation cast upon Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe. etc. by Barry O'Meara, late surgeon in the Royal Navy' (also now dismissed) 'implying that Sir Hudson Lowe had practiced with the said O'Meara to induce him to put an end to the existence of General Bonaparte. ' Stokoe, though dismissed the Navy, was put on half-pay. At Stokoe's treatment Napoleon, enraged, refused the future services of British doctors. This book is Stokoe's own defense, another book with damning evidence against the notorious Governor-Sir Hudson Lowe

Tarawa - The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles (Paperback): Robert Sherrod Tarawa - The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles (Paperback)
Robert Sherrod
R394 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan--and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod's battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive.
This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.

Edexcel AS/A Level History, Paper 1&2: Searching for rights and freedoms in the 20th century Student Book + ActiveBook... Edexcel AS/A Level History, Paper 1&2: Searching for rights and freedoms in the 20th century Student Book + ActiveBook (Paperback)
Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter, William Beinart
R1,237 Discovery Miles 12 370 In Stock

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities provides assessment support for both AS and A level with sample answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the new-style exam questions. It also comes with three years' access to ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect for revision.

The Riddle of the Labyrinth - The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Paperback): Margalit Fox The Riddle of the Labyrinth - The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Paperback)
Margalit Fox
R452 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Riddle of the Labyrinth is the true story of the quest to solve one of the most mesmerizing linguistic riddles in history and of the three brilliant, obsessed, and ultimately doomed investigators whose combined work would eventually crack the code. An award-winning journalist trained as a linguist, Margalit Fox not only takes readers step-by-step through the forensic process involved in cracking an ancient secret code, she restores one of the primary investigators, Alice Kober, to her rightful place in what is one of the most remarkable intellectual detective stories of all time.

Spitfire - A Very British Love Story (Paperback): John Nichol Spitfire - A Very British Love Story (Paperback)
John Nichol 1
R322 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R127 (39%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER WHSmith NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine' Rowland White, bestselling author of Vulcan 607 'As the RAF marks its centenary, Nichol has created a thrilling and often moving tribute to some of its greatest heroes' Mail on Sunday magazine The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened to the redoubtable fighter and its crews beyond the Battle of Britain, and why is it still so loved today? In late spring 1940, Nazi Germany's domination of Europe had looked unstoppable. With the British Isles in easy reach since the fall of France, Adolf Hitler was convinced that Great Britain would be defeated in the skies over her southern coast, confident his Messerschmitts and Heinkels would outclass anything the Royal Air Force threw at them. What Hitler hadn't planned for was the agility and resilience of a marvel of British engineering that would quickly pass into legend - the Spitfire. Bestselling author John Nichol's passionate portrait of this magnificent fighter aircraft, its many innovations and updates, and the people who flew and loved them, carries the reader beyond the dogfights over Kent and Sussex. Spanning the full global reach of the Spitfire's deployment during WWII, from Malta to North Africa and the Far East, then over the D-Day beaches, it is always accessible, effortlessly entertaining and full of extraordinary spirit. Here are edge-of-the-seat stories and heart-stopping first-hand accounts of battling pilots forced to bail out over occupied territory; of sacrifice and wartime love; of aristocratic female flyers, and of the mechanics who braved the Nazi onslaught to keep the aircraft in battle-ready condition. Nichol takes the reader on a hair-raising, nail-biting and moving wartime history of the iconic Spitfire populated by a cast of redoubtable, heroic characters that make you want to stand up and cheer.

The Great Railroad Revolution (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Christian Wolmar The Great Railroad Revolution (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Christian Wolmar
R572 R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Save R84 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status.

Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them.

In "The Great Railroad Revolution," renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.

Europe: 1555-1848 (Paperback, illustrated edition): M.C. van Zyl Europe: 1555-1848 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
M.C. van Zyl
R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Sunny Days - The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America (Paperback): David Kamp Sunny Days - The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America (Paperback)
David Kamp
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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