New History Titles
0008284431 
Paperback 
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: William Collins
Resource type: Physical
Note: Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Originally published: 2022
1398115150 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Centuries Will Not Suffice' explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the experiences of many who were caught up in the maelstrom. Unlike the figures at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, the men who were responsible for the killings have been largely forgotten.
139907735X 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
Resource type: Physical
Note: A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford. In particular, the story of his career in the RAF is relayed, including his stunning leadership achievement in creating
1804190861 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Thread
Resource type: Physical
Note: Henry Oster was just five years old when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. One of the 2,011 Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo and deported from Cologne, he was one of only 23 to emerge alive from the concentration camps after the war. This book is an inspirational true account of a courageous little boy who, against all odds, after losing almost everything, survived.
1529423503 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Quercus
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II.
1399083821 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women, from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to compile this testament to female lives and achievements, telling the stories of mistresses and martyrs.
1789466148 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bonnier Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: The first factual history of Salon Kitty, the story of a Berlin brothel used by the SD Nazi secret service as a listening post wired for sound to spy on its VIP clients, and staffed by specially selected and trained sex workers who doubled as secret agents.
1838858016 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
Note: Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life. It was only after her uncle and aunt had died that Jackie inherited an archive of material relating to the family back in Germany. Jackie's mother had managed to get out of Berlin in 1936, following her brother and sister who had already escaped.
0241617359 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Allen Lane
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Russo-Ukrainian War' is the comprehensive history of a conflict that has burned since 2014, and that, with Russia's attempt to seize Kyiv, exploded a geo-political order that had been cemented since the end of the Cold War. With an eye for the gripping detail on the ground, both in the halls of power and down in the trenches.
0691183740 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Resource type: Physical
0349017328 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past it. In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria visited her grandmother in Bereh, the hamlet near Poltava that was a haven in her childhood. Just before the trip she came across her great-grandfather's diary, one page scored deep with the single line: 'Brother Nikodim, vanished in the 1930s fighting for a free Ukraine.' She had never heard of this uncle and no one - especially her grandmother - seemed willing to tell her about him.
1529424267 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: riverrun
Resource type: Physical
Note: Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar.
1399077279 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: Captain F. J. Walker was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in the history of the Royal Navy. This is an incredible first hand account of Walker's career by his Gunnery Officer on HMS Starling, Walker's own ship. Originally published: London: Leo Cooper, 1993
1526615649 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
1529427789 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: riverrun
Resource type: Physical
Note: Mikhail Shishkin argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation.
0241506158 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Allen Lane
Resource type: Physical
Note: Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from the east. In the Middle Ages, Central Europeans cast their eastern foes as 'the dogmen'.
147462099X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those struggling to survive around them.
1399087525 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: Between the closing battles of the Second World War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War cast a shadow over the lives of people throughout the world. Whilst open conflict was avoided between the ideologically competing superpowers and their principal allies, millions died in battlegrounds in parts of the world that were usually far from Moscow, Washington and London.
0008476659 
Hardback 
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mudlark
Resource type: Physical
Note: The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.
0753558262 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: WH Allen
Resource type: Physical
Note: BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word 'FEMINA' annotated beside them.