Sandi Toksvig It's April 1940 and German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down and stay out...

Conrad Russell What were the causes of the English Civil War? The traditional explanations involving the struggle for sovereignty and the bourgeois revolution have been questioned in recent years. In...

Matthew Sweet An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to...

Barry Turner Over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949, British and American aircrafts carried out the most ambitious airborne relief operation ever mounted, flying 2.3 million tons of...

James Holland 'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The TimesIn February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful...

Elizabeth Buchan Wrapped in the roots of the sycamore was a skeleton; the remains of a woman, between twenty-five and thirty. She had carried a child . . .' At...

Miriam Cohen A Daughter of Two Mothers is the utterly captivating and remarkable story of a young girl s coming-of-age in the years prior to, and during, WWII. This true...

Sebastian Faulks From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original...

Jean Lucey Pratt In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt began writing a journal. She continued to write until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing well over...

Bernard Cornwell England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea – and only one man stands in...

Bernard Cornwell From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer’s Tale and Vagabond —the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets...

Bernard Cornwell The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Grail Quest series.The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army...