New History Titles
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
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
1399015257 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: John Geoffrey Lee (always known as Geoff) joined the RAF on his 20th birthday in June 1941. He left Liverpool on a troop ship in December 1941, with no idea where he was going. He eventually arrived in Java, where he was captured by the Japanese, along with many others. During his time in captivity, he survived several camps in Java, Ambon and Singapore and three hell ship journeys.
1787636291 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bantam Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Survivor' is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil. At only 16 years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he and his father were separated from their family and herded to the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp.
1526659638 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5's top-secret intelligence operation that finally helped bring peace to Ireland. April 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed, ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
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.
1912891964 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The School of Life Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Here is a collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting and reviving us.
1789545056 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Apollo
Resource type: Physical
Note: A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' - 'the Most Serene Republic' - to the Italian city that continues to enchant visitors today.
0241320526 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Allen Lane
Resource type: Physical
Note: Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
1847926215 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Resource type: Physical
Note: A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud. There have been many histories of the Cold War: this is the first book to tell the domestic story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front. The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1
1526725177 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
1399094467 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 'The Trojan War As Military History', the author's starting point is the fact that the 'Iliad', notwithstanding the fantastical/mythological elements (the involvement of gods and demigods), is the earliest detailed description of warfare we have. Stripping away the myths, Manousos Kambouris analyses the epic and combines it with other textual and archaeological evidence to produce a coherent narrative of the conflict and of Bronze Age warfare in the Aegean.
1804173304 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Flame Tree 451
Resource type: Physical
Note: Hannibal, famous for invading Italy over the Alps with his elephants, was a great leader at the time of the early republic of Rome, in 200BCE. He was a general of Carthage, on the North African coast, a bitter rival to the authority of Rome, and was regarded as a match for the feats and exploits of Alexander the Great in the previous century.