{"title":"New Releases: History","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sas-101-by-titch-cormack-pre-order","title":"SAS 101 by Titch Cormack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWar came to North Africa in June 1940. But it was over a year before a newly-formed SAS went into action. Until then, the fight belonged to an elite, top secret band of brothers called the Long Range Desert Group.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey were Britain’s first special forces. Born out of a pre-war club of explorers, eccentrics and mavericks, the LRDG operated alone behind enemy lines, performing astonishing feats of navigation, endurance and survival, and paved the way for the SAS. Drawing on his own decade’s service with UK Special Forces, Titch Cormack brings to life the action-packed but little-known story of Britain’s original rogue heroes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback | Publication: 21 May 2026, Michael Joseph \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eISBN: 9780241767122 | \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 352 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55370758553982,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241767122_1.jpg?v=1773223655"},{"product_id":"we-have-ways-of-making-you-talk-world-in-peril-new-histories-of-world-war-two-pre-order","title":"We Have Ways of Making You Talk: World in Peril: New Histories of World War Two","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Alamein to Barbarossa, the war on China to Stalingrad, Al Murray and James Holland's We Have Ways of Making You Talk will capture readers with the most up to date and pioneering academic research on a host of WWII-related topics. NEW HISTORIES OF WWII will trace the darkest hours of the miracle that was Dunkirk, follow arctic convoys in the North Cape, consider the destruction of Hamburg, and unpick the only thing that ever really frightened Churchill. Like their hugely successful podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, it will delve into the forgotten, hidden and little explained aspects of the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEW HISTORIES OF WWII is the first book to tie-in with the podcast and will follow a number of the podcast's most successful series. At once entertaining and illuminating, this is the perfect book for fans of World War II history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback | Publication: 27 Aug 2026, Headline \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472296504\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 336 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55887976006014,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781472296504_1.jpg?v=1770890640"},{"product_id":"slay-ancient-legends-of-female-slayers-and-the-hidden-mythology-of-dragons-by-jasmine-elmer-pre-order","title":"Slay: Ancient legends of female slayers and the hidden mythology of dragons by Jasmine Elmer","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA groundbreaking and seminal chronicle of the hidden history and mythology of female dragon slayers from ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer. The dragon is a monster with a rich history of symbolism in almost every culture. In the stories that have been passed down through time, dragons lurk in the great wild, in dark, unknown and mysterious lands that exist on the periphery of human civilisation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly the bravest of souls dare venture into the darkness to vanquish the dragon - and so often the tales have only shone light on the men. But what if there is so much more to this narrative? Jasmine Elmer shifts the spotlight to the daring and victorious female dragon slayers that have been written out of history. Combining historical research with mythological retelling, Slay is a celebration of the dragon - and the woman that conquered the monsters - that has never been done before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSlay is a distinctive and revelatory historical and mythological exploration of dragons, the stories and cultures around them, and the fierce women who slayed them. Praise for Goddess with a Thousand Faces'Fascinating, fun and thoughtful and enlightening' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne'A beautiful weave of history, myth and storytelling by one of our most exciting new classicists' Dan Snow, historian and TV presenter'Gorgeous. Jasmine Elmer has a fierce passion for these women, and this shines through in her writing' Lizzy Tiffin, author of Bad Girls of Ancient Greece'If you love history and feminist retellings, this is your next must-read' Rachel Blackmore, author of Costanza'Jasmine Elmer's sparkling debut offers up a refreshing, inclusive and powerfully feminist manifesto for what it means to be a goddess, ancient and modern' Emily Hauser, author of Mythica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback | Publication: 2 Jul 2026, John Murray \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781408750094\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 288 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023549084030,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781408750094_2.jpg?v=1771329415"},{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east-a-personal-history-by-jeremy-bowen-pre-order","title":"The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating and riveting read’ Jonathan Dimbleby'Arresting . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexcellent, doom-freighted' The TimesJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East Bowen offers a gripping and invaluable guide, showing how it came to be and what its future might hold. In part based on his acclaimed podcast, ‘Our Man in the Middle East’, Bowen takes you on a journey across the Middle East and through its history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe meets ordinary men and women on the front line, and their leaders, whether brutal or benign. He explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control. Clear throughout is Bowen’s deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan’s Turkey, Assad’s Syria, Netanyahu’s Israel, and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank, and his long experience of covering events in the region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 4 Jun 2026, Pan Macmillan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035083992\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 384 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023603052926,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781035083992.jpg?v=1753950754"},{"product_id":"stealing-hitlers-rocket-the-incredible-mission-to-smuggle-a-v2-out-of-nazi-occupied-europe-to-britain-by-guy-walters-pre-order","title":"Stealing Hitler's Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V2 out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain by Guy Walters","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdolf Hitler’s plan to break British morale during the months after the D-Day landings in June 1944 involved the invention and implementation of the world’s first rocket delivered warhead – the V1, or ‘Doodle Bug’ as it was christened by Londoners. Thousands were launched from their sites in the Low Countries against the British capital, killing 6,184 people and injuring 17,981. As the launch sites for the V1 were captured by Allied forces advancing through Belgium and into the Netherlands, a new, more terrifying rocket now hit London in mid-September, seemingly out of thin air – the V2.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA streamlined rocket which stood as tall as a four-storey building, the V2 was highly advanced technology. Powered by a rocket engine burning a mix of alcohol-water and liquid oxygen, it blasted its way to the edge of space, before falling back to Earth at supersonic speed. Unlike the successes allied pilots and anti-aircraft crews had enjoyed shooting down the slower and more cumbersome V1, the V2 struck London almost undetected.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt truly was Hitler’s terror weapon made devastatingly real, causing over 30,000 casualties and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless, with the randomness of the strikes unnerving the British public even though their destructive capacity was less than the Blitz in 1940-41. But Winston Churchill’s intelligence chiefs of SOE had known of the weapon weeks before it first struck the mainland as the Nazi boffins (led by Werner Von Braun who would go onto fame with the US Apollo Missions in the 1960s) tested the V2 in Eastern Europe. Away from prying eyes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr, so they thought. In Stealing Hitler’s Rocket, historian Guy Walters will reveal the true extent to how much we knew of this modern-day weapon and the operation by the Polish resistance to enable Britain and her allies to prepare for the day of reckoning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 4 Jun 2026, Bloomsbury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035910854\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 320 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023619305854,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781035910854.jpg?v=1753950877"},{"product_id":"regina-a-new-history-of-royal-women-by-kate-williams-pre-order","title":"Regina: A New History of Royal Women by Kate Williams","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this new book, celebrated historian Kate Williams leads us into the world of queens, empresses, princesses, mistresses and ladies-in-waiting, as she unveils their hidden stories and remarkable achievements in this enthralling historical journey. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia to the opulent courts of medieval Europe, this book delves deep into the lives of royal women, lifting the veil on both their trials and triumphs as they navigate political intrigue, family rivalries and personal sacrifices. From Hatshepsut and Cleopatra, through Tudor queens Catherine of Aragon and Lady Jane Grey, via Queen Victoria's contemporaries Yaa Asentewaa of Ghana and Queen Lilioukulani of Hawaii and right up to Princess Diana, this is an inspiring celebration of the oft-overlooked women who played pivotal roles in shaping history, and can teach us much about the place of royal women in society today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 4 Jun 2026, Orion \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781474621359\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 384 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023625171326,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781474621359_2.jpg?v=1765375046"},{"product_id":"heatwave-the-summer-of-1976-britain-at-boiling-point-by-john-l-williams-pre-order","title":"Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith temperatures soaring to 35ºC, severe water shortages and a sunburned population queuing at the standpipes, the summer of 1976 was always remembered as Britain's hottest. But the wave that hit the UK that year was also cultural and political, with upheaval on the streets, in parliament, on the cricket pitch and on the radios and TV sets of a nation at a crossroads. Before this blistering summer, Britain seemed stuck in the post-war era, a country where people were all in it together - as long as you were white, male and straight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn July, Tom Robinson writes a song called Glad to be Gay, and by August bank holiday, Black youth are making the police run for their lives in the almighty riot at the Notting Hill Carnival. But with the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly quitting, the pound sinking and the economy tanking, a restless immigrant population and increasing dissatisfaction in the old world order, the weather seemed to boil up the country to the point where the lid blows off. Weaving a rich tapestry of the news stories of the year, with social commentary and dozens of first-person interviews with those that were there at the time, Williams's reappraisal of the summer of '76 is an evocative, sometimes nostalgic but always an unflinching read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeatwave takes us back to relive the events of that summer and asks - have we really moved on as much as we would have liked?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 21 May 2026, Octopus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781800961739\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 592 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023669178750,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781800961739.jpg?v=1753951839"},{"product_id":"elizabeth-an-intimate-portrait-from-the-writer-who-knew-her-and-her-family-for-over-fifty-years-by-gyles-brandreth-pre-order","title":"Elizabeth by Gyles Brandreth","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in Israel after the fifth election in less than four years. Propped up by a bloc of far-right and ultra-religious parties, Netanyahu's government is the most extreme administration in Israeli history. It has pushed Israeli society to breaking point, alienated its allies, and sanctioned unprecedented violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIsrael now faces cataclysmic rifts and an existential crisis. Pfeffer charts the mass protests against Netanyahu, from his government's conduct in its war on Gaza to his attempts to silence the judiciary and expand settlement in the West Bank. No King In Israel is the definitive story of Israel's fractured democracy, and of the fight to define what Israel should be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 16 Apr 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781405972888\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 640 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023687823742,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781405972888_1.jpg?v=1771424534"},{"product_id":"the-book-in-the-cathedral-the-last-relic-of-thomas-becket-by-christopher-de-hamel-pre-order","title":"The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Christopher de Hamel","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas BecketThe assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to T. S.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's Becket. In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel here identifies the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine: the Anglo-Saxon Psalter which he cherished throughout his time as Archbishop of Canterbury, and which he may even have been holding when he was murdered. Beautifully illustrated and published to coincide with the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artefacts of medieval England.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 9 Apr 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780141994246\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 64 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023708205438,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780141994246.jpg?v=1753952381"},{"product_id":"the-illegals-russias-most-audacious-spies-and-the-plot-to-infiltrate-the-west-by-shaun-walker-pre-order","title":"The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShaun Walker skilfully shows how Russia's modern-day election meddling is rooted in the subterfuge and trickery of the bad old days. This is a fascinating read.' Oliver Bullough'Sinister, clandestine and deadly - this is essential history, and it is happening now.' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A riveting spy thriller that doubles up as a secret history of Russia.' Peter PomerantsevIn 2010, two decades after the Cold War had ended, ten Russian spies were arrested in America, having hidden their true identities from their friends, neighbours and even their children. They were part of a spy programme that had begun nearly a century earlier, when the revolutionary Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizens abroad to pose as foreign aristocrats, merchants and students.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese deep-cover missions - some remarkable feats of espionage, others high-profile failures - could last for decades. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, as well as newly discovered archival material, Shaun Walker brings this history to life in a page-turning tour de force that goes to the heart of what became the most ambitious espionage programme in history. As Moscow continues to infiltrate illegals across the globe, The Illegals shines new light on the long arc of the Soviet experiment and its messy aftermath - and on how that hidden history shaped Russia and the West.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 9 Apr 2026, Profile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781788167789\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 448 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023713841534,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781788167789.jpg?v=1753952512"},{"product_id":"sceptred-isle-a-new-history-of-the-fourteenth-century-by-helen-carr-pre-order-1","title":"Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe death of Edward I in 1307 marked the beginning of a period of intense turmoil and change in England. The fourteenth century ushered in the beginning of the bloody Hundred Years’ War with France, an epic conflict with Scotland that would last into the sixteenth century, famine in Northern Europe and the largest human catastrophe in known history, the Black Death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the epic drama of regicide, war, the prolonged spectre of bubonic plague, religious antagonism, revolt and the end of a royal dynasty, this book tells the story of the fourteenth century via the lives of Edward II, Edward III and Richard II – three very different monarchs, each with their own egos and ambitions, each with their own ideas about England and what it meant to wield power. Alongside the lives of the last Plantagenets, it also uncovers lesser-known voices and untold stories to give a new portrait of a fractured monarchy, the birth of the struggle between Europeanism and nationalism, social rebellion and a global pandemic. Sceptred Isle is a thrilling narrative account of a century of revolution, shifting power and great change – social, political and cultural – shedding new light on a pivotal period of English history and the people who lived it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 2 Apr 2026, Cornerstone \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529157345\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 464 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023719117182,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781529157345.jpg?v=1753952698"},{"product_id":"europe-a-new-history-by-roderick-beaton-pre-order","title":"Europe: A New History by Roderick Beaton","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present. What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before - as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, 'Europe' has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe’s major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the uncertainties of the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves. Grappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, Europe places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 26 Mar 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241624500\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 432 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023726457214,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241624500_f1a5f788-873f-4ba2-8875-492abb630be7.jpg?v=1753953019"},{"product_id":"the-alienation-effect-how-central-european-emigres-transformed-the-british-twentieth-century-by-owen-hatherley-pre-order","title":"The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritain. Made in Europe. In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the émigrés had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever. Drawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a Verfremdungseffekt, an ‘alienation effect’, on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too. Provocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, The Alienation Effect opens our eyes to the influence of the émigrés all around us – many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash – and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 26 Mar 2026, Penguin  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780141989778\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 608 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023734944126,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780141989778.jpg?v=1753953127"},{"product_id":"the-lives-of-the-caesars-by-suetonius-pre-order","title":"The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, and to rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biographies invite us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than those by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in the early 2nd century AD. That Rome lives more vividly in people's imagination than any other ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow award-winning author and translator Tom Holland brings us even closer in a new, spellbinding translation. Giving a deeper understanding of the personal lives of Rome’s first emperors, and of how they swayed the fates of millions, The Lives of the Caesars is an astonishing, immersive experience of a time and culture at once familiar and utterly alien to our own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 26 Mar 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780141980386\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 448 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023739859326,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780141980386.jpg?v=1753953267"},{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-spies-by-alistair-wood-pre-order-1","title":"My Family and Other Spies by Alistair Wood","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Simply stunning ... might be the best non-fiction book I’ve ever read about post-war SIS\" - CHARLES BEAUMONT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘It has always been inculcated into me that no good could ever come of having anything to do with my father …’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a boy, Alistair Wood lived within the (very high) walls of a Secret Intelligence Service – or MI6 – training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in SIS history. After all, he was family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis mother was one of a handful of women to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin. His father, once one of Britain’s most highly-regarded intelligence officers, was an absent and perplexing figure, the reasons for his sudden departure from the Service still classified to this day. But Wood’s search for the truth took him on a journey more remarkable than even he had imagined.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy Family and Other Spies is a gripping exploration of an extraordinary, scarcely believable life, a globe-trotting spy story that spans a half century from the gathering storm before the Second World War to the fall of Communism, and a son’s reckoning with the secrets of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 26 Mar 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781405971980\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 400 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023741923710,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781405971980_1.jpg?v=1755789472"},{"product_id":"the-rebel-empresses-elisabeth-of-austria-and-eugenie-of-france-power-and-glamour-in-the-struggle-for-europe-by-nancy-goldstone-pre-order","title":"The Rebel Empresses by Nancy Goldstone","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France-and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era. When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Not only were they both young and beautiful-becoming cultural and fashion icons of their time-but they played a pivotal role in ruling their realms during a tempestuous era characterized by unprecedented political and technological change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFearless, adventurous, and independent, Elisabeth and Eugénie represented a new kind of empress-one who rebelled against tradition and anticipated and embraced modern values. Yet both women endured hardship in their private and public lives. Elisabeth was plagued by a mother-in-law who snatched her infant children away and undermined her authority at court.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEugénie's husband was an infamous philanderer who could not match the military prowess of his namesake. Between them, Elisabeth and Eugénie were personally involved in every major international confrontation in their turbulent century, which witnessed thrilling technological advances, as well as revolutions, assassinations, and wars. With her characteristic in-depth research and jump-off-the-page writing, Nancy Goldstone brings to life these two remarkable women, as Europe goes through the convulsions that led up to the international landscape we recognize today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 19 Mar 2026, Orion \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399604000\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 640 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023743988094,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781399604000.jpg?v=1753953445"},{"product_id":"how-to-kill-a-witch-a-guide-for-the-patriarchy-by-claire-mitchell-zoe-venditozzi-pre-order","title":"How To Kill a Witch: A Guide For The Patriarchy by Claire Mitchell \u0026 Zoe Venditozzi","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a woman, if you lived in Scotland in the 1500s, there was a very good chance that you, or someone you knew, would be tried as a witch. Witch hunts ripped through the country for over 150 years, with at least 4,000 accused, and with many women's fates sealed by a grizzly execution of strangulation, followed by burning. Inspired to correct this historic injustice, campaigners and writers Claire Mitchell, KC, and Zoe Venditozzi, have delved deeply into just why the trials exploded to such a degree.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn order to understand why it happened, they have broken down the entire horrifying process, step-by-step, from identification of individuals, to their accusation, 'pricking', torture, confessions, execution and beyond. With characteristically sharp wit and a sense of outrage, they attempt to inhabit the minds of the persecutors, often men, revealing the inner workings of exactly why the patriarchy went to such extraordinary lengths to silence women, and how this legally sanctioned victimisation proliferated in Scotland and around the world. With testimony from a small army of experts, pen portraits of the women accused, trial transcripts, witness accounts and the documents that set the legal grounds for the hunts, How to Kill A Witch builds to form a rich patchwork of tragic stories, helping us comprehend the underlying reasons for this terrible injustice, and raises the serious question - could it ever happen again?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 2 Apr 2026, Octopus \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781800961906\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 320 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023761617278,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781800961906.jpg?v=1753953932"},{"product_id":"rot-a-history-of-the-irish-famine-by-padraic-x-scanlan-pre-order","title":"Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRichly underpinned by research in contemporary sources and firmly rooted in historical scholarship.' Fintan O'Toole\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A vivid, polemical narrative that does justice to victims and explains the ideologies that worsened the disaster.' Irish Independent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Scanlan's history of the ''Great Hunger' and its repercussions is meticulous, measured and damning.' Financial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Mr. Scanlan's haunting and terrible book is undoubtedly a history title of the year.' Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the 1800s, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and 'civilisation', threatening disorder in Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIreland was a laboratory for empire, shaping British ideas about colonisation, population, ecology and work. In Rot, Padraic Scanlan reinterprets the history of this time and the result is a revelatory account of Ireland's Great Famine. In the first half of the nineteenth century, nowhere in Europe - or the world - did the working poor depend as completely on potatoes as in Ireland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo many British observers, potatoes were evidence of a lack of modernity among the Irish. However, Ireland before the famine more closely resembled capitalism's future than its past. While poverty before and during the Great Famine was often blamed on Irish backwardness, it did in fact stem from the British Empire's embrace of modern capitalism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUncovering the disaster's roots in Britain's deep imperial faith in markets and capitalism, Rot reshapes our understanding of the Famine and its tragic legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 12 Mar 2026, Little Brown  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472146892\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 352 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023765778814,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781472146892.jpg?v=1753954136"},{"product_id":"money-and-promises-seven-deals-that-changed-the-world-by-paolo-zannoni-pre-order","title":"Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the twelfth century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the face of a looming financial crisis, the city’s rulers and its moneylenders forged a deal that laid the foundations of the modern state and of present-day banking. In Money and Promises, the distinguished banker and scholar Paolo Zannoni examines the extraordinary relationship between states and banks. He draws upon seven case studies: the republic of twelfth-century Pisa, seventeenth-century Venice, the early years of the Bank of England, Imperial Spain, the Kingdom of Naples, the nascent USA during the American Revolution, and Bolshevik Russia in 1917–21.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanning a multitude of countries, political systems and historical eras, Zannoni shows that at the heart of our institutions lies an intricate exchange of debt and promises that has shaped the modern world. Featuring pioneering research and original insights, this authoritative yet accessible book explores the vital relationship upon which our financial and political systems still depend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 12 Mar 2026, Bloomsbury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781804542811\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 304 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023802642814,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781804542811.jpg?v=1753954992"},{"product_id":"the-decline-and-fall-of-the-human-empire-why-our-species-is-on-the-edge-of-extinction-by-henry-gee-pre-order","title":"The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction by Henry Gee","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Brilliant’ The Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Hugely informative and entertaining’ New Scientist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’ Eric Idle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. The global population is forecast to begin declining in the second half of this century, and in 10,000 years’ time our species will likely be extinct.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past and charting our dramatic rise from one species of human among many to the most dominant animal ever to live on Earth. But rapid climate change, a stagnating global economy, falling birth rates and an unexplainable decline in average human sperm count are combining to make our chances for longevity increasingly slim. There could be a way forward, but the launch window is narrow . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. . Drawing on a dazzling array of the latest scientific research, Gee tells the extraordinary story of humanity with characteristic warmth and wit, and suggests how our exceptional species might avoid its tragic fate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Like Jared Diamond meets Arthur C. Clarke with a dash of Douglas Adams’ Philip Ball, author of How Life Works\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Mar 2026, Pan Macmillan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035032259\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 320 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023839670654,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781035032259_1.jpg?v=1755788534"},{"product_id":"holy-places-how-pilgrimage-changed-the-world-by-kathryn-hurlock-pre-order","title":"Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World by Kathryn Hurlock","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'One simply cannot do justice to Kathryn Hurlock's vivid and remarkably wide-ranging page-turner' Country Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis year, as they have for millennia, many people around the world will set out on pilgrimages. But these are not only journeys of personal and spiritual devotion - they are also political acts, affirmations of identity and engagements with deep-rooted historical narratives. Kathryn Hurlock follows the trail of pilgrimage through nineteen sacred sites - from the temples of Jerusalem to the banks of the Ganges, by way of Iona, Lourdes, Amritsar and Buenos Aires - revealing the many ways in which this ancient practice has shaped our religions and our world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePilgrimages have transformed the fates of cities, anointed dynasties, provided guidance in hard times and driven progress in good. Filled with fascinating insights, Holy Places unveils the complex histories and contemporary endurance of one of our most fundamental human urges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Mar 2026, Profile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781800817449\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 464 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023843799422,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781800817449.jpg?v=1753955533"},{"product_id":"trafalgar-by-paul-okeeffe-pre-order","title":"Trafalgar by Paul O'Keeffe","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historianAt or about 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 22-gramme, 15-millimetre French musket round fired down from the mizzen top of the Redoutable, a distance of some 70 feet to HMS Victory’s quarter deck. It nicked the edge of his epaulette, and passed diagonally down, through the material of his coat and into the left shoulder, fracturing the upper part of the scapula or shoulder blade, then the second and third rib. It pierced the left lung, dividing a branch of the pulmonary artery, and emerged to sever the spine, splintering the sixth and seventh vertebrae above and below as it crashed between.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe soft lead ball – distorted by collisions with bone – ended its flight embedded in muscle two inches below the right scapula. In this fresh and visceral retelling of the battle of Trafalgar, Paul O’Keeffe traces the course of events both prior and subsequent to that fatal shot: from about 6.30 in the morning, as the British ships began their slow approach towards the combined French and Spanish fleet, until the cessation of firing that followed the apocalyptic destruction of the French 74-gun Achille at 5.45 in the afternoon. But we also learn about the battle’s dramatic aftermath: how a violent storm that raged for eight days destroyed the surviving French and Spanish ships and drowned more sailors than had been killed during battle; how news of victory travelled and was celebrated in London; how Nelson’s body was brought home and given a spectacular funeral.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaying meticulous attention to the peripheral – and little explored – details, O’Keeffe gives us a front-row view of events; and in his unflinching portrayal of the brutal reality of naval warfare, he tells the story of the human cost of war. Gripping and immersive, this is a unique account of Trafalgar for a new generation of readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Mar 2026, Vintage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781847921833\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 288 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023850582398,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781847921833.jpg?v=1753955747"},{"product_id":"rain-of-ruin-tokyo-hiroshima-and-the-surrender-of-japan-by-richard-overy-pre-order","title":"Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.' - Philip Snow, Literary Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Mar 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781802065978\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 224 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023854350718,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781802065978.jpg?v=1753955858"},{"product_id":"the-achilles-trap-saddam-hussein-the-united-states-and-the-middle-east-1979-2003-by-steve-coll-pre-order","title":"The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces Saddam's motives through understanding his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader - a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the torture or imprisonment of many more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia, resentments and inconsistencies - even when the stakes were incredibly high. Using unpublished and underreported sources, interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own transcripts and audio files, The Achilles Trap is a remarkable picture of a dictator who was convinced the world was out to get him and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance, it is the definitive account of how corruptions of power, lies of diplomacy and vanity - on both sides - led to avoidable errors of statecraft: ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and forever change our political landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 26 Feb 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781802065206\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 576 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023954882942,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781802065206.jpg?v=1753958595"},{"product_id":"hotel-exile-paris-in-the-shadow-of-war-by-jane-rogoyska-pre-order","title":"Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt has a darker history, too. During one short period, it became a focus for some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In the 1930s the Hotel Lutetia attracted intellectuals and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, who met here with the hope of forming an alternative government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service – and the centre of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps. Hotel Exile is about what happens on the edges of a war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its heart are three groups of people connected to a place, to one another, and to the dark ideology which dictates the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Jane Rogoyska’s extraordinary new book offers us a vision of individual human beings desperately trying to find a path through some of the twentieth century’s most devastating events.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 26 Feb 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241679630\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 368 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023967236478,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241679630_1.jpg?v=1765971156"},{"product_id":"the-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world-by-clifton-crais-pre-order","title":"The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind' – J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scale’ – Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning and Legacy of Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA bold, trailblazing history that asks: what if the movements that built the modern world – the Enlightenment, democracy, the Industrial Revolution – were more catastrophic than we ever imagined? In this radical rethinking of modernity, Professor Clifton Crais argues that the era between 1750 and the early 1900s – seen by many as the birth of the Anthropocene – should instead be known as the Mortecene: the Age of Killing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKilling brought the world together and tore it apart, as violence and commerce converged to create a new and terrible world order that drove the growth of global capitalism. Profiteering warlords left a trail of devastation across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, committing mass-scale slaughter of humans and animals, and sparking an environmental crisis that remains the most pressing threat facing the world today. Drawing on decades of scholarship and a range of new sources, The Killing Age turns our vision of past and present on its head, illuminating the Mortecene in all its horror: how it has shaped who we are, what we value, what we fear, and the precarious planet we must now confront.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 19 Feb 2026, Pan Macmillan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035013418\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 736 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023978934654,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781035013418.jpg?v=1753959325"},{"product_id":"the-queen-100-years-100-stories-by-michelle-morgan-pre-order","title":"The Queen: 100 Years, 100 Stories by Michelle Morgan","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrown jewels, coronations and corgis, this is a warm and nostalgic biography of powerhouse monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, written by experienced biographer Michelle Morgan. Structured around 100 vignettes, the reader will be invited into an intimate telling of key moments of her long life. Many of the stories relate to milestones, such as her wedding to Prince Philip, the coronation, the birth of her children along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and her various jubilees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInterspersed with these, are fascinating stories that have been lost or forgotten over the past century. From immersive accounts of her working life, such as trips around the country and abroad to the people she met (including her neighbour for a time, Marilyn Monroe!), and the anecdotes they shared. The book includes striking photographs of the Queen at different stages of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom shy princess to World War II mechanic, through to Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith, the Queen was a stoic stalwart to the end. Told with insight and warmth, this is the perfect tribute to our longest-reigning monarch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 19 Feb 2026, Little Brown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781408783467\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 256 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023979622782,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781408783467.jpg?v=1753959529"},{"product_id":"mafia-a-global-history-by-ryan-gingeras-pre-order","title":"Mafia: A Global History by Ryan Gingeras","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEverybody knows they exist: the Cosa Nostra, the Medellin Cartel, New York’s Five Families, China’s tongs. This book asks the question: how have mafias helped define the modern world? While the narrative begins deep in the past, the bulk of the story takes place after 1800. It is during the following two hundred years that the political, economic and social forces most relevant to the development of mafias took shape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe critical chapters centre upon the decades between the end of the First World War and the close of the twentieth century. In these years we see the rise of those figures most synonymous with the idea of the mafia: Capone, Escobar, Du, Lansky, Mogilevich, El Chapo and the Krays to name a few. To understand these characters, and the gangs they led, Mafia will take readers on intimate tours of the locales that birthed their notoriety: Chicago, Sinaloa, Istanbul, Shanghai or the East End.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the spirit of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s recent treatment of great families, or Sven Beckert’s history of cotton, Mafia: A Global History explains how these organizations shape, as well as reflect, the construction of modern states, economies and societies that form our increasingly integrated world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 12 Feb 2026, Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781398531659\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 528 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023995122046,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781398531659.jpg?v=1753959826"},{"product_id":"mining-men-britain-s-last-kings-of-the-coalface-by-emily-p-webber-pre-order-1","title":"Mining Men: Britain’s Last Kings of the Coalface by Emily P Webber","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A compelling, unflinching account…full of tales of tragedy, gallows humour and camaraderie’ The Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMining Men explores how these men felt when the pits were closed and what happened next, including former miners who became factory workers, detectives, driving instructors, counsellors, the local mayor and one who even ended up working on Fleet Street. Featuring accounts from Ayrshire to the South Wales Valleys, from the ‘People’s Republic of South Yorkshire’, to the ‘Sunshine Corner Coalfields’ of Kent, each chapter offers a different perspective of the industry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritain’s last deep coalmine closed in 2015, yet just fifty years ago the mining industry was a juggernaut, employing over 250,000 workers. Combining new personal interviews with extensive archival research, Emily P. Webber illuminates the extraordinary history of the industry once considered the backbone of Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy situating the miners’ strike of 1984–85 in a longer history of the coalfields, we can understand why miners and their families fought so hard against pit closures, and what happened after the pit wheels stopped turning. Vivid, evocative and richly alive with minute detail, Mining Men uncovers what the mining industry once meant to its workers and their communities, and what Britain lost when it was gone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback  \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 12 Feb 2026, Vintage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529921502\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 352 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56023998398846,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781529921502.jpg?v=1753960059"},{"product_id":"24-hours-in-the-viking-world-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-people-who-lived-there-by-kirsten-wolf-pre-order","title":"24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Kirsten Wolf","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings. Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples we know now as the Vikings became one of the most far-ranging and influential civilizations in history. The Vikings are frequently portrayed as raiders, marauding across medieval Europe and Britain, but the culture and society of the medieval Nordic peoples was so much more diverse, multifaceted and influential than it is often depicted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 24 Hours in the Viking World, author and Viking expert Kirsten Wolf chronicles an hour in the life of 24 individuals from every corner of Viking society over the course of a single day. From the warrior to the thrall, the shipbuilder to the farmer, the poet to the oracle, each chapter offers a snapshot of the world as it was in medieval Scandinavia, and an insight into how these people lived, loved, worked, fought and died. The latest entry in the bestselling 24 Hours series, 24 Hours in the Viking World presents an absorbing, grounded and tangible look at what it was really like to be alive during this pivotal era in history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback  \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 12 Feb 2026, Michael O'Mara\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781789298734\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 272 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024001118590,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781789298734.jpg?v=1753960161"},{"product_id":"the-myth-of-american-idealism-how-u-s-foreign-policy-endangers-the-world-by-noam-chomsky-nathan-j-robinson-pre-order","title":"The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World by Noam Chomsky \u0026 Nathan J. Robinson","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati Roy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe land of the free. The home of the brave.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut what has America achieved in the aim of ‘spreading democracy’ — except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many?In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America’s pursuit of global domination, offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push. Offering penetrating accounts of Washington’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they examine how interventions such as these have been justified with noble stories about humanitarian missions and benevolent intentions but are now driving us closer to wars with Russia and China.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt once thorough and devastating, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions Noam Chomsky has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar' Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback  \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781405967143\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 288 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024005050750,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781405967143.jpg?v=1753960314"},{"product_id":"prosecuting-the-powerful-war-crimes-and-the-battle-for-justice-by-steve-crawshaw-pre-order","title":"Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice by Steve Crawshaw","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE IN HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Prosecuting The Powerful isn't just compelling and very moving, it has all the force of a well-crafted thriller. I literally couldn't stop reading it,' John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A compelling account of a revolutionary moment in history,' Philippe Sands, The Spectator \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Powerful, timely and moving,' Baroness Helena Kennedy KC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A tour de force,' Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Absolutely brilliant,' Nick Cohen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCould we ever see Vladimir Putin in the dock for his crimes? What about a Western ally like Benjamin Netanyahu? Putting a country's leader on trial once seemed unimaginable. But as Steve Crawshaw describes in Prosecuting the Powerful - a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting and gripping history - the possibilities of justice have been transformed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrawshaw includes recent stories from the front lines of justice in Ukraine, Israel\/Palestine and at The Hague, as well as his earlier encounters with war criminals like Slobodan Miloševic. He tells the stories of those who have demanded protection for civilians and accountability for war criminals - from the Geneva Conventions to the Syrian police photographer who helped put one of Bashar al-Assad's torturers behind bars. He also follows the extraordinary unfolding story of two of the world's most powerful and well-connected leaders currently under indictment at the International Criminal Court in The Hague: Putin and Netanyahu.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor all the current darkness, this is a historic opportunity. The scales of justice can and must be balanced. Now is the moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback  \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Little Brown \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349128955\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 432 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024008065406,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780349128955.jpg?v=1753960426"},{"product_id":"chain-of-fire-campaigning-in-egypt-and-the-sudan-1882-98-by-peter-hart-pre-order","title":"Chain of Fire: Campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-98 by Peter Hart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the 1880s, control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield into which Prime Minister Gladstone did not want to step - until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged in Khartoum, and the city became the focal point for war. It was the height of European colonialism. Injustices were administered, bloody battles fought and civilians caught in the crossfire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmong the British officers were figures who would later adopt starring roles in the First World War, such as Egyptian Army sapper Captain Herbert Kitchener. By turns shocking and dynamic, Chain of Fire examines the terrible desert wars using the testimonies of the men who fought there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Profile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781800810747\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 464 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024015962494,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781800810747.jpg?v=1753960638"},{"product_id":"the-first-fascist-the-life-and-legacy-of-the-marquis-de-mores-by-sergio-luzzatto-pre-order","title":"The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Mores by Sergio Luzzatto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn nineteenth century France, the first fascist was born. Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Morès became the first populist and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world. A key figure behind the Dreyfus affair, he tore France apart with his inflammatory media rhetoric and violent stunts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWho was this man, who both anticipated and propelled the fascist politics that erupted in the twentieth century?Drawing on a wealth of original sources, award-winning historian Sergio Luzzatto explores the forgotten story of a father of fascism. He shows how, after losing aristocratic status in modern, democratic France, Morès led an adventurous life cattle ranching on the American frontier and building a railway in the jungles of Indochina – yet found all his schemes dogged by failure. He follows in Morès’s footsteps, as, blaming supposed Jewish machinations for his defeats, he returned to France and soon controlled a large, violent militia of disgruntled workers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEven when his rapid political rise was torpedoed by a highly publicized financial scandal, his shadow continued to loom. In Vichy France, as Jewish people were being deported to Auschwitz, officials would gather to celebrate Morès’s memory. Vivid and unsettling, The First Fascist is an engrossing exploration of the roots of our present discontent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241715819\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 320 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024054366590,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241715819.jpg?v=1753961204"},{"product_id":"a-sicilian-man-leonardo-sciascia-the-rise-of-the-mafia-and-the-struggle-for-italy-s-soul-by-caroline-moorehead-pre-order","title":"A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul by Caroline Moorehead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCorruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of 20th-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance; this is the story of the one man who stood in opposition. In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The maxi-processo saw 462 men and 4 women take the stand, accused of kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and thousands upon thousands of murders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSitting in the galley was Leonardo Sciascia, then aged 65. One of the greatest European writers of the 20th century, he had published the only fictional account of the Mafia, The Day of the Owl, in 1961, and was widely seen by Italians as the one true moral figure in a county where corruption had seeped into every corner of public and private life. Sciascia was born in 1921 and came of age alongside the then-adolescent Mafia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the First World War, Sicily faced extreme poverty and hardship, and many Sicilians did not recognise Rome’s leadership, leaving a void local gangsters would soon fill. Witnessing the spread of corruption and violence in his own hometown, Sciascia predicted it would soon spread north, and he was right: by the 1980s, the Mafia had infiltrated every level of Italian politics and grown into an international, highly successful business. In A Sicilian Man, prize-winning historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead charts Sciascia’s life against the rise of the Mafia, and lays out the thrilling and devastating struggle that ensued for Italy’s soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Chatto \u0026amp; Windus \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784745035\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 384 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024062787966,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781784745035.jpg?v=1753961383"},{"product_id":"hard-streets-working-class-lives-in-charlie-chaplin-s-london-by-jacqueline-riding-pre-order","title":"Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty. Framed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBreathing life into forgotten stories of mothers and sons, labourers and actors, vagrants and sex workers, of suffering, survival and success against the odds, this compelling social history paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Profile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781800818644\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 432 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024071766398,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781800818644.jpg?v=1753961747"},{"product_id":"forgotten-searching-for-palestine-s-hidden-places-and-lost-memorials-by-raja-shehadeh","title":"Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials by Raja Shehadeh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness\" Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A heartbreaking, hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures\" Irish Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. From ancient city ruins to the Nabi 'Ukkasha mosque and tomb, acclaimed writers and researchers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson ask: what has been memorialised, and what lies unseen, abandoned or erased - and why? Whether standing on a high cliff overlooking Lebanon or at the lowest land-based elevation on earth at the Dead Sea, they explore lost connections in a fragmented land. In elegiac, elegant prose, Shehadeh and Johnson grapple not only with questions of Israeli resistance to acknowledging the Nakba - the 1948 catastrophe for Palestinians - but also with the complicated history of Palestinian commemoration today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 5 Feb 2026, Profile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781805222422\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 240 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024092672382,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781805222422_1.jpg?v=1753962037"},{"product_id":"miracle-the-boys-who-escaped-the-gas-chamber-in-auschwitz-by-michael-calvin-naftali-schiff-pre-order","title":"Miracle: The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz by Michael Calvin \u0026 Naftali Schiff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn unforgettable testament to hope and the bonds of brotherhood, Miracle reveals the untold story of the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz, the only known Holocaust survivors to walk away from the jaws of the Nazi killing machine. Early on the morning of October 9, 1944, seven-hundred boys, aged between 13 and 17, were taken out of Block 11 at Auschwitz. The night before, during a visit by Dr Josef Mengele, their identification cards had been stamped with a solitary German word – gestorben – 'died' in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey were then marched by 25 bayonet-wielding SS men to Crematorium 5, stripped, and herded into a gas chamber. This book is the story of a true-life miracle of the fifty-one boys who were pulled from that gas chamber – the only Holocaust survivors known to have escaped such a close brush with the Nazi killing machine – and given a second chance at life. A life, of course, that would be so horrifically snatched from those around them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on the first-hand testimonies of six of the boys, six survivors whose stories are shared in this book for the very first time, Miracle interweaves the lives of the boys and the grander sweep of history in which they were held. The result is an unforgettable tale of hope, faith and fortitude in the face of one of the worst crimes against humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 22 Jan 2026, Transworld \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780857507891\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 272 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024136909182,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780857507891_1.jpg?v=1759403067"},{"product_id":"friends-in-youth-choosing-sides-in-the-english-civil-war-by-minoo-dinshaw-pre-order-1","title":"Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early 17th century London, many pivotal friendships were forged: few closer than that of Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde. Both young men were lively characters, industrious, well-connected, principled and optimistic. They dreamed of reforming the government of Charles I, a young court with age-old problems, by restoring the traditional harmony of Crown and Parliament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of how their hopes climbed, overreached, and fell into an abyss of relentless civil war. This highly original, vivid and engaging book recreates the atmosphere, drama, players and ideas of what is arguably England’s (and Britain’s) most crucial and traumatic formative period. Through the stories of his two protagonists, Minoo Dinshaw shows how subtle religious and political differences, careful personal judgments, and mere happenstance combined to place these two friends, most reluctantly, on opposite sides in the English Civil Wars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey would both survive, unlike many thousands of others, into old age; both would become influential historians, shaping how we still understand the conflicts of their age. But their friendship, like the once hopeful country in which it had first flourished, would be forever changed: permanently marred by what both men believed to be senseless and unnecessary civil strife.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780141986517\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 544 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024150802814,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780141986517.jpg?v=1753963005"},{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-taiwan-a-history-by-sulmaan-wasif-khan-pre-order","title":"The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China, in 1949 it suddenly became the focus of global attention as a random cross-section of defeated Nationalists, including President Chiang Kai-shek, fled there from Mao's triumphant Communist forces. The Struggle for Taiwan is a balanced and convincing account of the sequence of events that has left Taiwan for generations as a political anomaly, with issues around its status and future continuing to threaten war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith deepening democratization, Taiwan further goads Beijing, remaining functionally independent from China even as Xi Jinping clamours for unification. This invaluable book allows readers to understand the complex story of this unique place and its role in international relations. With its striking economic dynamism and commitment to democracy, can Taiwan continue - as Hong Kong once did - to thrive, or will China conquer it? And will the world be able to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait or will it stumble into war?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781802064421\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 336 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024178753918,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781802064421.jpg?v=1753963389"},{"product_id":"the-hohenzollerns-and-the-nazis-a-history-of-collaboration-by-stephan-malinowski-pre-order-1","title":"The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe disappearance of the Hohenzollern family from the history of Germany in November 1918 as the Kaiser fled into Dutch exile is one of the most startling, rapid instances of a once all-powerful royal family becoming almost overnight irrelevant and marginal. Except this is not exactly what happened. Stephan Malinowski’s German bestseller is an extraordinary work of recovery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt suited both the Weimar Republic and then the Third Reich to view the Hohenzollerns with contempt, and yet the royal family’s hatred of the former and approval of the latter were for millions of Germans a significant factor in their own view of their country and its government. With forensic and often shocking detail, Malinowski shows that, far from being ridiculous, marginal figures the Hohenzollerns lay at the heart of Germany’s ongoing nightmare. Despite formally losing power, the members of the royal family remained prominent, catastrophically allowing many other conservative Germans to stay distanced from the new republic and to eventually betray conservative traditions and values.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBattered from both left and right, the Republic collapsed in 1933 in part because conservative forces, fearful of both Communism and Fascism, had abandoned their own principles just as much as the leading members of former royal family had, who were themselves beguiled by and fooled by Hitler. This is an important and shocking book, as well as a devastating picture of an inadequate and trivial royal family painfully underequipped to fulfil its role.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781802061086\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 704 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024191598974,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781802061086.jpg?v=1753963553"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-modern-syria-by-daniel-neep-pre-order","title":"A History of Modern Syria by Daniel Neep","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFew countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then brutally ruled by France. This French ‘mandate’ carved out new borders with equally provisional neighbours in a process that pulled apart families, trade networks and political assumptions that had already been ravaged by the war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSyria's subsequent history has been a series of attempts to make sense of its borders, including a failed attempt in the late 1950s to unite with Egypt and several humiliations at the hands of Israel's armed forces. The civil war that broke out in 2011 plunged Syria into a nightmarish series of disasters, including the terrible years of Islamic State, ultimately resulting in the reimposition of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship, which came to an end in 2024. Daniel Neep’s remarkable book creates a gripping, intelligent narrative of how Syrians have lived through these events, never losing sight either of the fates of ordinary people or of Syria’s rich, complex and diverse society, unwillingly or willingly brought together in such a highly contested space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241003299\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 672 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024196153726,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241003299.jpg?v=1753963694"},{"product_id":"the-crown-s-silence-by-brooke-newman-pre-order","title":"The Crown’s Silence by Brooke Newman","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s connection with the transatlantic slave trade The Crown's Silence is the untold story of the British royal family’s relationship to slavery from the reign of Elizabeth I to the present. It will be the first history of the British monarchy told through the lens of its intimate, centuries-long relationship with African slave trading, slavery, and racial injustice. A work of ground-breaking original research and narrative synthesis, it exposes the ways in which the British monarchy invested in, expanded, and defended the transatlantic slave trade for nearly three centuries and how it continues to profit from systems of racial exploitation to this day – while remaining silent in the face of that legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt will reveal how the Crown effectively ruptured and reshaped Britain’s national narrative and collective memory of its own colonial past as well as the consequences of that deafening silence. As former British colonies in the Caribbean consider severing their ties with the Crown (and the British royal family sends emissaries to try to keep them), The Crown's Silence tells a history that is very much in the headlines – and will no doubt continue to be. It will be the next chapter in revealing the lost histories of not only Britain and the United States, but of our world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008670955\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 464 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024203035006,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780008670955.jpg?v=1753963783"},{"product_id":"the-oak-and-the-larch-a-forest-history-of-russia-and-its-empires-by-sophie-pinkham-pre-order","title":"The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham","description":"\u003cp\u003eA majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made – and resisted – Russia’s many empires. From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse – a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia’s ideas of itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the majestic oak, which towers over the country’s western heartland, and the hardy Siberian larch, an emblem of survival in the east, award winning scholar Sophie Pinkham’s magisterial account spans centuries, revealing how forests have nourished ancient Siberian Indigenous societies, defended medieval Slavic settlements from Mongol invasion and served as both an essential natural resource and a potent cultural symbol for Russia in all its incarnations, from the days of the tsars to the Soviets to Putin’s Federation. By examining the country from the forest’s perspective, Pinkham pushes far beyond the contemporary political environment in Russia. She draws on literature, history and art to connect the expanse of the Russian wilderness and the nature of Russian culture, with indelible portraits of the diverse figures who have inhabited and celebrated these forests: the legendary Indigenous guide Dersu Uzala, giants of literature like Tolstoy and Chekhov, political thinkers like Kropotkin and even Stalin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe confronts the forest’s role in Russia’s long history of imperial conquest, and in resistance to this conquest. Gorgeously written and surprising at every turn, The Oak and the Larch offers a vision of Russia rarely seen in the West, as a land defined by its wilderness, shaped by its encounters with the frontier, and – much like our own – ultimately beholden to nature’s whim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Harper Collins \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008554941\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 352 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024206082430,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780008554941.jpg?v=1753963916"},{"product_id":"neptune-s-fortune-the-billion-dollar-shipwreck-and-the-ghosts-of-the-spanish-empire-by-julian-sancton-pre-order","title":"Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire by Julian Sancton","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoger Dooley wasn’t looking for the San Jose. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetime—the journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King of Spain nearly three centuries earlier. But that ship, the galleon San Jose, never reached its destination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInstead, the Spanish treasure fleet was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena. When the smoke cleared, the San Jose had disappeared into the ocean. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalf Cuban by birth, he lived a life that stretched from the ballfields of Brooklyn to the shores of Castro’s Havana at the dawn of revolution, where he would help birth a fledgling nation’s diving program and make films with Jacques Cousteau, before finding himself placed on an international watch list and barred from the United States. Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding the San Jose led him to breakthroughs once thought impossible. As he jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, Dooley ultimately homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreck—or nothing at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeptune's Fortune plunges into a rarified world through the eyes of an idiosyncratic protagonist, one whose work would spark the hopes of presidents and make real the dreams of a nation. This tale of temerity and treasure is a one-of-a-kind story of a lost fortune and the decades-long quest to shine a light on the bounty at the bottom of the sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Ebury \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780753560686\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 368 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024224825726,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780753560686.jpg?v=1753964264"},{"product_id":"exit-stalin-the-soviet-union-as-a-civilization-1953-1991-by-mark-b-smith-pre-order","title":"Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991 by Mark B. Smith","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest country and its decline and fall. With Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one which became more predictable for its citizens and one which made a genuine attempt to create the egalitarian, progressive country that the Russian Revolution had once promised. That this attempt would fail was not clear until the 1980s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMark B. Smith's remarkable book recreates the day-to-day life of this vast state, the largest ever to exist. What was life like in a country which made such absolute claims for the future, which claimed to be on its way to creating a people's utopia and which, like the USA, owned enough atomic weapons to end human life on Earth? Exit Stalin is filled with extraordinary stories about those who lived in the USSR and the distinctive and functioning civilization that they built.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany of them embraced its values, understood its goals and could not imagine life outside such a vastly ambitious and progressive project. The shortages, coercion and incompetence that underlay the USSR - and which by the late 1980s would doom it - has to be understood alongside the acceptance it always had from many of its citizens. And this in turn is a crucial issue for understanding Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union in the 21st century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 29 Jan 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241400852\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 752 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56024232690046,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241400852.jpg?v=1753964406"},{"product_id":"ninettes-war-a-jewish-story-of-survival-in-1940s-france-by-john-jay-pre-order","title":"Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France by John Jay","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConstructed through diary entries and conversations writer John Jay had with the protagonist before she died, Ninette's War charts her high society family's fall from grace as they grapple with the hostility of their country - a France that had welcomed previous generations with open arms as the first European country to emancipate its Jewish people. Ninette's testimony is compelling, heart wrenching and sincere as she chronicles her family's slow realisation of antisemitism and Nazi-collaboration from the Vichy government - led by former first world war hero Philippe Pétain, as he works to brutalise and legislate Jews out to the margins of society and towards death through Nazi rhetoric. Tracing the frailty of national pride through the eyes of a young girl, this is Ninette's War told in heart-breaking detail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 22 Jan 2026, Profile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781805220671\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 352 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56025115722110,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781805220671.jpg?v=1753968536"},{"product_id":"a-shellshocked-nation-britain-between-the-wars-by-alwyn-turner-pre-order","title":"A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between The Wars by Alwyn Turner","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter the calamity of the Great War, there was a desire in Britain for escapist fun - the lights of the Jazz Age, radio comedies and the pictures were a welcome respite from the grim reality of the Great Depression. Yet the storm clouds were gathering, and Britain between the wars was a turbulent, restless place - and where the foundations of the modern nation were laid. Combining cultural, social and political history, A Shellshocked Nation is the next instalment in Alwyn Turner's highly original history of the twentieth century, sketching a portrait of the interwar nation through its entertainments and scandals, its people and political crises.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the General Strike to the BBC, Irish Home Rule and the rise of fascism, this is the definitive story of Britain's most anxious era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 22 Jan 2026, Profile \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781805221876\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 384 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56025125126526,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781805221876.jpg?v=1753968697"},{"product_id":"worlds-of-islam-a-global-history-by-james-mcdougall-pre-order","title":"Worlds of Islam: A Global History by James McDougall","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom its emergence in seventh century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. Over the span of a thousand years, armies, missionaries, and merchants carried it to the edges of Europe, the coasts of Southeast Asia and the remote interior of China. From the Arab caliphate to the Mongol empire, from West Africa to the Philippines, Islam was a world-shaping force.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy the nineteenth century, Muslims lived everywhere from South Africa to North America. In the age of European empires, through two World Wars and a Cold War, and into the globalised and fractured 21st century, Muslims lived through global conflicts and everyday struggles for adaptation and survival. In Worlds of Islam, historian James McDougall charts the epic global story of Islam’s origins and transformations, as Muslims adapted to their changing times from late antiquity to the digital age, constantly remaking their own worlds as the wider world around them changed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSweeping in scope and colourful in detail, Worlds of Islam shows how Islam’s place in the world has been part of how the world – with all its frictions and inequalities, its promises and aspirations – became modern.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 20 Jan 2026, Allen Lane \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241528488\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 624 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56025129582974,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780241528488.jpg?v=1753968839"},{"product_id":"made-in-america-the-dark-history-that-led-to-donald-trump-by-edward-stourton","title":"Made in America: The dark history that led to Donald Trump by Edward Stourton","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrump’s second term, even more than his first, is often called ‘unprecedented’. But history shows that Trump and his policies are as American as apple pie…Much of what Donald Trump does seems maverick and even mad. His actions and policy pronouncements are a stark rupture from the American style of leadership that we have lived with all our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut whether we like them or not, his trade tariffs, his determination to deport tens of thousands of people, and his apparent contempt for the rule of law are deeply rooted in American history. Since Donald Trump took office plenty of people – on both sides of the Atlantic – have argued that he will destroy his country’s democracy. Made in America shows how the ideal of liberty has been tested in past generations, from the first intolerant Pilgrims to the brutal invasion of Mexico, revealing the dark side of the American Dream in order to offer urgent lessons to our turbulent present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 15 Jan 2026, Transworld \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781911742111\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 224 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56025138037118,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781911742111_1_7a2e2b40-f541-4d62-af7c-f88c855a7909.jpg?v=1759402967"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/collections\/new-releases-history.oembed?page=6","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}