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The forgotten story of Britain s own Hindenburg disaster

It should become a standard work on this campaign Telegraph James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign John C McManus A heart pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome This is history at its finest James M Scott Pulitzer Prize finalist Holland writes with eloquence and power about the harsh realities of a brutal battle that grabbed the world s attention and helped to decide the future of Italy Professor Michael S Neiberg There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion and with the Italian surrender the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943 And yet it didn t happen Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War By the start of 1944 the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line a formidable barrier of wire minefields bunkers and booby traps woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us To tell the reasons the things and the stories thanks to which Roman civilization is alive From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective that the Roman Empire never fell In fact its influence reaches further and deeper than ever Beginning with the origins of Rome and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus Cazzullo takes the reader on a page turning voyage through ancient history bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire the republican age with heroic men and women willing to die for their country The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus the slave who inspired rebels of every age The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus two of the

There s a sea lover in every Brit The Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 has been keeping people in tune with the gloriously fickle British weather for a century and capturing our hearts and imaginations along the way Celebrating a hundred years since the first broadcast this book takes you to the heart of what the Shipping Forecast means to us as a nation Each of the ten chapters brings you on a fascinating exploration of a different area of our British maritime history from stormy weather up above to the seabed far below and from fishing boats and battleships to the songs and poems inspired by the forecast This joyous book invites you to sail away into the enchanting world of the forecast and is the perfect companion for anyone curious about our great British skies and seas

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

Who became Britain s first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721 When was Karl Marx born Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses When did Big Ben first bong When did the first British woman cast her vote Clue It wasn t 1918 Find the answers to these questions and many more in this landmark political history From the first meeting of an elected English parliament on 20 January 1265 to the tabling of the Bill of Rights on 13 February 1689 from the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819 to Britain voting to leave the EU on 23 June 2016 there is a growing thirst for knowledge about the history of our constitutional settlement our party system and how our parliamentary democracy has developed Writing as an observer of political history but also as someone with an opinion acclaimed political broadcaster Iain Dale charts the main events of the last few hundred years with one event per page per day The indefatigable Iain Dale always cuts to the nub of politics Adam Boulton

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

It should become a standard work on this campaign Telegraph James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign John C McManus A heart pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome This is history at its finest James M Scott Pulitzer Prize finalist Holland writes with eloquence and power about the harsh realities of a brutal battle that grabbed the world s attention and helped to decide the future of Italy Professor Michael S Neiberg There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion and with the Italian surrender the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943 And yet it didn t happen Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War By the start of 1944 the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line a formidable barrier of wire minefields bunkers and booby traps woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer

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

A brilliant exploration of Cyprus s long history of cultural resilience Superbly composed Guardian Poetic Compelling New Statesman One of National Geographic s Summer Reads 2024 Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures at the crossroads of the British Ottoman Byzantine Roman and Egyptian empires a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody conflict where the ancient olive trees of Homer s time exist alongside the undersea cables which link up the world s internet In Cypria British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply personal lyrical history of the island of Cyprus from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day This sprawling evocative and poetic book begins with the legend of the cyclops and the storytelling at the heart of the Mediterranean culture Christofi travels to salt lakes crusader castles mosques and the eerie town deserted at the start of the 1974 war He retells the particularly bloody history of Cyprus during the twentieth century and considers his own identity as traveler and returner as Odysseus was Written in sensitive witty and beautifully rendered prose with a n

Previously published as Peacemakers Between January and July 1919 after the war to end all wars men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers Woodrow Wilson Lloyd George and Clemenceau Kings prime ministers and foreign ministers with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and lobbyists for a hundred causes from Armenian independence to women s rights Everyone had business in Paris that year T E Lawrence Queen Marie of Romania Maynard Keynes Ho Chi Minh There had never been anything like it before and there never has been since For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries They pushed Russia to the sidelines alienated China and dismissed the Arabs struggled with the problems of Kosovo of the Kurds and of a homeland for the Jews The peacemakers so it has been said failed dismally failed above all to prevent another war Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later They tried to be evenhanded but their goals to make defeated countries pay without destroyi

An absorbing and eye opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us HELEN CASTOR Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter DAN JONESBetween 1199 and 13

A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award winning writer meditating on a complicated storied relationship through history

Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful The Times London 1877 A petite young woman stands before an all male jury about to risk everything She takes a breath and opens her defence Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet Remarkably Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England At a time when women were expected to be obedient Annie s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex censorship and morality A Dirty Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her and chose instead to resist

A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Mercia its landscapes peoples conflicts power structures and political geography The eighth century has long been a neglected backwater in English history a shadowland between the death of Bede and the triumphs of lfred But before the hegemony of Wessex the kingdom of Mercia spread across a broad swathe of central England was the dynamic heart of a kingship that discovered the means to exercise central political authority for the first time since the Roman empire That authority was used to construct trading networks and markets develop economic and cultural links with the Continent and lay the foundations for a system of co ordinated defence that lfred would reinvent at the end of the ninth century Two kings thelbald 716 757 and Offa 757 796 dominate the political landscape of the rising power of Mercia During their reigns monasteries became powerhouses of royal patronage economic enterprise and trade Offa constructed his grandiose dyke along the borders of the warlike Welsh kingdoms and more subtly spread his message of political superiority through coinage bearing his image But thelbald and Offa between them built something with an even more substantial legacy a

A superb book Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it Andrew Marr Sunday Times Eighteenth century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation Many of Scotland s people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change as traditional ways of life were overturned by the rational exploitation of land use The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process which changed the Lowland countryside forever as it also did more infamously the old society of the Highlands Based on a vast array of original sources this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line In the process old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency This is a story of forced clearance of the destruction of entire communities and of large scale emigratio

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe A majestic brilliant account of the birth of an empire Spectacularly good PETER FRANKOPAN With its gripping storytelling combined with historical rigour The Sun Rising is just the right kind of zesty treatment a neglected period needs Fresh and fabulous LUCY WORSLEY In 1603 England was on the edge of crisis Queen Elizabeth I had died bringing the Tudor line to an end Enter King James who reached London after an unprecedented procession from Scotland James established a new dynasty on the English throne and the first united kingdom of England Scotland Ireland and Wales was born The Stuarts had arrived But first this new Great Britain had to play catch up England was behind but James s global ambitions began to shift the tide As ships departed London for America Russia Persia India and Japan as the fledgling East India Company began to intertwine ever closer with the crown and as the English began to travel beyond the bounds of their island in greater numbers than ever before the seeds of the future British Empire were sown Long overshadowed by the glory of Elizabeth I and the fatal nadir of Charles I the reig

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year This is a unique and compelling journey through five centuries of the city known as La Serenissima a perfect companion for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods Venetian views were a speciality of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi but the city has also been represented by outsiders J M W Turner Claude Monet John Singer Sargent Howard Hodgkin and many more Then there are those who came to look at and write about art The reactions of Henry James George Eliot Richard Wagner and others enrich this tale Nor is the story over Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s and the arrival of Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1940s the city has become a shop window for the contemporary art of the whole world and it remains the site of important artistic events In this elegant volume Gayford who has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s covered every Biennale since 1990 and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions takes us on a visual journey through the ci

THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I ve read for years DOMINIC SANDBROOK Highly original and insightful PD SMITH GUARDIAN Thrillingly unique knowledgeable perceptive and profound IAN DUNT The history of Europe told through twenty nine key borders that define the past present and future of our continent Europe s internal borders have rarely been natural they have more often been created by accident or force In Borderlines political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty nine key borders from west to east Europe examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century with varying degrees of success The fingerprints of Napoleon Alexander I Castlereagh Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there but today s map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945 To journey to the centre of the story of Europe Baston takes us to its edges bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones We visit Baarle the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland Belgium border and stop in Ostritz the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival We meander the back lanes of rural Ireland

Walk a day in a Roman s sandals What was it like to live in one of the ancient world s most powerful and bustling cities one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York In this entertaining and enlightening guide bestselling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to 24 characters who lived and worked there In each hour of the day we meet a new character from a senator to a slave girl a gladiator to an astrologer watchmen to washerwomen and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives