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Elegantly written and superbly illustrated, this splendid work chronicles two thousand years of Britain's history—the triumph of its people, the glory of its culture, and its dramatic influence on other nations of the world, particularly America.

From medieval to modern exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets diagrams concepts methods and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages J Allan Mitchell reveals how in the predigital past we can recognize many of the operative technics analytics and metaphorics that continue to shape human sense and cognition today Exploring the diverse modalities of medieval instruments Mitchell s case studies encompass techniques as seemingly distinct as time keeping mechanisms mathematical diagrams logical syllogisms and the literary devices of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower A cultural and intellectual history Mitchell s work leads readers from three dimensional objects physical mechanisms to two dimensional inscriptions maps and diagrams and onward to overarching disciplinary norms in the early liberal and mechanical arts Prying loose the subtle adaptable and generative concept of technical objects from limiting contemporary frameworks he shows how these instruments are indispensable to the past and the future of the arts and culture at large

From Jon Sopel bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents comes an incisive examination of post Brexit Britain and what it means for our future I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too JOE LYCETT A thrilling nerve wracking book You couldn t make the last ten years up thanks to Jon Sopel you don t have to PETER FRANKOPAN A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster ARMANDO IANNUCCI Acute and unflinching Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic MISHAL HUSAINReturning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting or maybe discombobulating would be a better word It is after all my home it is where I grew up a country I love and am proud of But either it s changed or I have Maybe both It just feels like a strange land At the beginning of 2022 after eight years of political reporting in the US Jon Sopel returned home to the UK and having spent almost a third of his career abroad he found a very different place to the one he left In Strangeland his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents he asks What is the Britain he s come home to In the US Jon was the ou

When does war end and slaughter begin That is the question that drives this compelling re examination of the Allied aerial bombing campaign and the suffering of German civilians during World War II During the Second World War American and British air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany destroying some sixty cities killing more than half a million German citizens and leaving eighty thousand aircrew dead For decades observers have minimised the difference between the two campaigns according equal responsibility to the Americans and the British In this controversial study acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that painting the American and British campaigns with the same broad brush is both unfair and historically inaccurate The terrible truth is that most of the British bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of Allied military leadership leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and prolonging the war By contrast American precision bombing almost brought the Germans to their knees Throughout the war the US campaign was infused with a particularly American fusion of determination optimism and morality and played an integral and largely unrecognised role in securing Allied victory in

The forgotten story of Britain s own Hindenburg disaster

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909 women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence yet their contributions have been all but written out of history Now drawing on private and previously classified documents leading historian Claire Hubbard Hall brings their gripping true stories to life From encoding orders and decrypting enemy messages to penning propaganda and infiltrating organisations the women of British intelligence played a pivotal role in both the First and Second World Wars Prepare to meet the true custodians of Britain s military secrets from Kathleen Pettigrew personal assistant to the Chief of MI6 Stewart Menzies who late in life declared I was Miss Moneypenny but with more power to Jane Archer the very first female MI5 officer who raised suspicions about the Soviet spy Kim Philby long before he was officially unmasked and Winifred Spink the first female officer ever sent to Russia in 1916 In Her Secret Service Hubbard Hall rescues these silenced voices and those of many other fascinating women from obscurity to provide a definitive account of women s contributions to the history of the intelligence services

A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell Ram packed with mind blowing facts hilarious characters and little known tales Dan Schreiber If you could take just one history book to a desert island this would be it Laugh out loud funny Pure joy Conn IgguldenAh Britain So special The greatest nation on earth some say And we did it all on our own Didn t we As it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans and for the past two centuries we have been ruled by Germans As Horrible Histories author Terry Deary argues nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make Elizabeth I would count as a minor royal without the Spanish Armada Without the Nazis Churchill would be remembered as an opposition windbag The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren t for the Roman Ninth LegionAnd after all every nation sometimes needs a bit of unifying Blitz spirit although in an ideal world we wouldn t have accidentally let Corporal Hitler go in the first place The British have a proud history of choosing their enemies from the Romans to the Germans You might even say those enemies made Britain what it

During the Second World War it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary in the middle of winter in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbour Yet this is precisely what happened in 1942 The man who gave the go ahead for the audacious commando raid Lord Louis Mountbatten head of Combined Operations fully anticipated that all ten men would die in the attempt Mountbatten wasn t far wrong two ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling them out of the submarine two drowned when their canoes capsized entering the Gironde estuary and a further six were captured by the Germans and later executed By complete chance the two canoeists who managed to escape Major Blondie Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks stumbled into the arms of the French resistance Once in their care Hasler and Sparks made their way across France and into Spain crossing the Pyrenees in the company though they did not know it of a Gestapo agent intent on bringing down the resistance network Operation Suicide will be the first account of this enthralling raid for over fifty year

The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle masterly Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Compelling The Eastern Front is essential reading Margaret Macmillan Financial Times A masterwork This is the history of the Eastern Front I ve waited all my life to read Simon Sebag Montefiore The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the unknown war the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody Between 1914 and 1917 huge numbers of people perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians were killed wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length Through intimate eyewitness reports diary entries and memoirs many of which have never been translated into English before Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balk

Brilliantly written evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation Tom Holland author of Pax and co host of The Rest is History A wondrous gorgeously written book Rebecca Wragg Sykes author of Kindred Splendid an intimate portrait of the Viking Age Highly recommended Neil Price author of The Children of Ash and Elm A History of the Vikings Takes us beyond the familiar into a real visceral far more satisfying Viking world Dan SnowImagine a Viking and a certain image springs to mind a nameless faceless warrior leaping ashore from a longboat and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today they were in the minority This is the history of all the other people children enslaved people seers artisans travellers writers who inhabited the medieval Nordic world Encompassing not just Norway Denmark and Sweden but also Iceland Greenland parts of the British Isles Continental Europe and Russia this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages genders and ethnicities as told through the traces that they left behind from hairstyles to place names love notes to gravestones For the first time you can immerse yourself in

A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship.Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.

A brand new social history of how Briton s felt about and celebrated VE Day utilising the rich Mass Observation archives published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of VE Day in 2025

Ma non pezzi di costume. Chi se ne frega del costume? Lascia che se ne occupino quelli che fanno le colonnine sul Mondo (Italo Calvino a Leonardo Sciascia, 25 novembre 1957) Ci sono molti modi per raccontare il Novecento: e il secolo della violenza; il secolo delle masse, delle religioni politiche, degli esperimenti totalitari, del welfare state, della democrazia. Ma esiste anche - cosi visibile da passare quasi inosservato - un Novecento effimero nel quale cio che cambia e la vita privata delle italiane e degli italiani: il loro modo di pensarsi, vestirsi, vivere il corpo e la sessualita, organizzare la propria vita, i propri consumi, le case, i viaggi, le citta. Attraverso il prisma delle cronache di costume, questo libro descrive appunto mutamenti e permanenze quotidiane dagli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento fino alla grande trasformazione degli anni Sessanta del Novecento. La storia pubblica delle nostre storie private.

Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail his book on D Day is sure to impress a vast audience Dan Snow Stephen Fisher is a very rare beast a man who can bring stunning research and scholarship hand in glove with the gifts of a fine storyteller James Holland Written with verve and panache I can almost hear the splash of waves against the LCTs the whine of bullets overhead feel the concussive thud of shells and mortars and experience the rush of sweat fear and adrenaline as Fisher describes the opening battle in Normandy on that day of all days D Day on Sword Beach It s a brilliant evocation of one of the greatest days in history and Fisher has done it proud Bravo Robert Lyman author of Victory to Defeat The British Army 1918 1940 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history D Day The landings on the five Normandy beaches Utah Omaha Gold Juno and Sword will go down in legend as the first footsteps on the journey to end the war in northern Europe While much has been written about the operation as a whole little detailed attention has been paid to the battle for Sword Beach itself the easternmost of the amphibious attack ar

In the great revolutionary year of 1968 Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties and he was restless While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world Westminster politics seemed stuck It was time he decided for a different approach Over the next half century the radicalized Benn helped forge a new left in Britain He was joined by four other politicians who would become comrades collaborators and rivals Ken Livingstone John McDonnell Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn For Andy Beckett the story of these admired and loathed political explorers both their sudden breakthroughs and long stretches in the wilderness is the untold story of British politics in modern times As he reveals their project to create a radically more equal liberal and democratic Britain has been much more influential than electoral history might suggest and can be seen from the shape of our city life to the causes of our culture wars For their many detractors this influence was and remains dangerous a form of extremism that must be stamped out But as these five searchers believed in politics there is no total victory nor total defeat