Non Fiction - History

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Alliance; the inside story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill won one war and began another (Daisy)

Throughout the war the 'Big Three' - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany - and, just as... more

Product code: 800993

£6.99

Cosa Nostra; a history of the Sicilian Mafia (Daisy)

The Mafia has been given many names since it was founded in the mid-19th century - the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed,... more

Product code: 800074

£8.99

Days that changed the world (Daisy)

The currents of history run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an... more

Product code: 800558

£14.99

D-Day, 1944; voices from Normandy (Daisy)

This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were... more

Product code: 801820

£7.99

Heart of darkness ; and The Congo diary (Daisy)

This book reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at... more

Product code: 800813

£6.99

Hunting evil; how the Nazi war criminals escaped and the hunt to bring them to justice (Daisy)

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of... more

Product code: 801913

£7.99

Katharine, the virgin widow (Daisy)

The young Spanish widow, Katharine of Aragon, has become the pawn between two powerful monarchies. After less than a year as the wife of the frail Prince Arthur, the question of... more

Product code: 800192

£6.99

Mayflower; a voyage of war (Daisy)

From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet,... more

Product code: 800309

£9.99

Memories of the civilians war 1939-1945 (Daisy)

This text chronicles the lives of an ordinary working class family during the six years war. The events are described by the narrator, Doris, thirteen, when the war starts. The... more

Product code: 800002

£5.99

Persian fire; the first world empire, battle for the West (Daisy)

The text dramatises the conflict 2500 years ago between the global superpower Persia, and the two 'terrorist' Greek states Athens and Sparta. The book also examines the whole... more

Product code: 800497

£9.99

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