Agent Zigzag
A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Written by Ben Macintyre

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-35341-2 (0-307-35341-9)

“Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-
spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”
—William Grimes, The New York Times

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of 2007
One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)
New York... Read more >

Franklin and Winston
An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Written by Jon Meacham

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7282-5 (0-8129-7282-1)

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who worked together and achieved victory in World War II.

It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending... Read more >

Saint Thomas More
Selected Writings
Written by Thomas More
Edited by John F. Thornton

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72572-2 (0-375-72572-5)

A Vintage Spiritual Classic

Thomas More is perhaps most familiar to us from his courageous struggle with Henry VIII, unforgettably portrayed in Robert Bolt’s classic, A Man for All Seasons. But that final struggle, which ended in his execution for treason, was only the crowning act in a life that he had... Read more >

Blitz - An Illustrated History

Written by Gavin Mortimer
Compiled by The Mirror Group

Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-424-6 (1-84908-424-6)

The winter of 1940-41 was the season of the Blitz. From St Paul’s Cathedral to the East End, from the very heart of the capital to the cities of the midlands, throughout the length and breadth of the land the bombs rained down as Germany attempted to bludgeon Britain into submission... Read more >

The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History

Written by Gavin Mortimer

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-646-2 (1-84908-646-X)

In his new book, WWII historian Gavin Mortimer examines the pivotal events of one of the most famous military units of all time. Starting with the unit’s formation in July 1941, Mortimer recreates the heady days when a young Scots’ Guard officer called David Stirling persuaded MEHQ to give its backing... Read more >

The Bolter

Written by Frances Osborne

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47642-5 (0-307-47642-1)

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

In an age of bolters—women who broke the rules and fled their marriages—Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Her relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy... Read more >

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Written by Samuel Pepys
Edited by Richard Le Gallienne
Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7071-5 (0-8129-7071-3)

“The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature,” writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666... Read more >

My Silent War
The Autobiography of a Spy
Written by Kim Philby
Foreword by Graham Greene
Introduction by Phillip Knightley

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75983-3 (0-375-75983-2)

In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA... Read more >

Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 15, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5515-1 (0-8070-5515-8)

During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled from their masters to find freedom with the British. Having emancipated themselves--and with rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears--these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their lives.

This alternative narrative includes the stories... Read more >

Mid-Georgian Britain
1740-69
Written by Jacqueline Riding

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-0799-5 (0-7478-0799-X)

Mid-Georgian Britain was a period of both elegance and desperation. As the middle and upper classes enjoyed their wealth with an increasing range of consumer goods, the poor endured debtor’s prison and an increasing number of crimes with the death penalty. This, the latest addition to the growing Living Histories series... Read more >

The Tyrannicide Brief
The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
Written by Geoffrey Robertson

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38637-3 (0-307-38637-6)

Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose... Read more >

Norman England
1066-1204
Written by Trevor Rowley

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-0800-8 (0-7478-0800-7)

The year 1066 is perhaps the most important date in English history. The Norman invasion, headed by William the Conqueror, meant revolutionary change throughout English life. Soon there was a new ruling class, new language, new styles of dress, behavior and architecture, as well as a new capital and new forms... Read more >

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
A Brief Account of a Long Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7144-6 (0-8129-7144-2)

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank—Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.

Like no other portrait of its famous subject... Read more >

The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7603-8 (0-8129-7603-7)

Winner, 2010 National Jewish Book Award (Writing Based on Archival Material)

Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be... Read more >

The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross

Format: Trade Paperback, 1168 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7834-9 (1-4000-7834-2)

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles, and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
 
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon–the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children–was born on August 4, 1900... Read more >

The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross

Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4304-0 (1-4000-4304-2)

“Nothing short of mind-boggling when you realize the extensive research Shawcross has done on his royal subject . . . At times fascinating . . . Anglophiles and lovers of the crown will relish every morsel.” —Craig Wilson, USA Today

“Remarkable . . . The Queen Mother left behind not the... Read more >

1970s Britain
1970-1979
Written by Janet Shepherd and John Shepherd

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1097-1 (0-7478-1097-4)

The 1970s is remembered as a decade of punk rock, the Winter of Discontent, Bloody Sunday and The Female Eunuch. The iconic images of the 70s, from the break-up of the Beatles to the striking Merseyside graveyard diggers and mountains of municipal rubbish in Leicester Square, provide a glimpse into the... Read more >

1920s Britain

Written by John Shepherd and Janet Shepherd

Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-0792-6 (0-7478-0792-2)

How does a society recover from a devastating war? This was the question posed in the 1920s as people searched for normality in the aftermath of terrible trauma. Written from the perspective of those who lived, worked and played in the metropolis of greater London, 1920s Britain uncovers the hardships and... Read more >

Graven With Diamonds
The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Poet, Lover, Statesman, and Spy in the Court of Henry VIII
Written by Nicola Shulman

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Steerforth
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-58642-207-3 (1-58642-207-3)

Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry VIII’s reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry VIII’s most glamorous and enigmatic subject: Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Poet, statesman, spy, lover of Anne Boleyn and favorite both of Henry VIII and his sinister minister... Read more >

An Honourable Englishman
The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
Written by Adam Sisman

Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6976-7 (1-4000-6976-9)

He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation—a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp attacks on other... Read more >

Bletchley Park
Code-Breaking
Written by Michael Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1215-9 (0-7478-1215-2)

Around 100 people arrived at Bletchley in August 1939, but by the beginning of 1944 there were around 10,000 people from a wide range of backgrounds. Young women who had left school at 15 worked alongside senior academics and service officers with everyone treated as equals. To quote an American who... Read more >

Elizabeth the Queen
The Life of a Modern Monarch
Written by Sally Bedell Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7979-4 (0-8129-7979-6)

From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world’s most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed... Read more >

Elizabeth I

Written by Anne Somerset

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72157-8 (0-385-72157-9)

Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries. She firmly believed in the divine providence... Read more >

The Sisters of Sinai
How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Written by Janet Soskice

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3474-1 (1-4000-3474-4)

Agnes and Margaret Smith were not your typical Victorian scholars or adventurers. Female, middle-aged, and without university degrees or formal language training, the twin sisters nevertheless made one of the most important scriptural discoveries of their time: the earliest known copy of the Gospels in ancient Syriac, the language that Jesus... Read more >

The Battle of Britain

Written by Neil Storey

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1047-6 (0-7478-1047-8)

In the skies above south-east England in 1940, battle was waged between the men and machines of the Royal Air Force and Hitler's Luftwaffe. At stake was air superiority, and the Germans intended this to be a first step in the invasion of Britain. Squadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires, then among... Read more >