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14th August, hb, eb, £22, 9781472872982
Critical study of five historical armies offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with modern threats.
The Killing Season Robert Cowley 11th September, hb, eb, £30, 9781472874320
In-depth, authoritative account of autumn 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare.
Oxford University Press
We Now Belong to Ourselves Arianne Edmonds 2nd September, hb, £22.99, 9780197579084
Chronicles how Edmonds and other pioneering Black publishers documented the shifting tides in the advancement of Black liberation.
The Things She Carried Kathleen B Casey 4th November, hb, £26.99, 9780197587829
Thorough and surprising examination of the purse.
Embracing Exile David Kraemer 4th August, hb, £26.99, 9780197623541
Analyses biblical and rabbinical texts, philosophical treatises and a multiplicity of modern expressions for a comprehensive history of Jewish responses to and justifications of their diasporas.
The Spy and the State Jeffrey P Rogg 24th August, hb, £30.99, 9780197678732
Gives readers the foundation to understand the past, navigate the present and shape the future of American intelligence.
A Journey North Louis P Masur 1st October, hb, £18.99, 9780197684917
The story of a road trip undertaken in summer 1791 through upstate New York and New England by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Driven by the Monsoons Barry Cunliffe 28th August, hb, £30, 9780198886815
The story of trade across the Indian Ocean, based on archaeological evidence and the tales of great travellers.
Autumn/Winter 2025
Queen Elizabeth II David Cannadine 11th September, hb, £12.99, 9780198902300
Concise and authoritative biography of the UK’s longest- reigning monarch.
On the Ocean Barry Cunliffe 9th August, pb, £25, 9780198960416
Captures the contest between humans and the sea played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.
Gotham at War Mike Wallace 6th January, hb, £29.99, 9780199384518
Culminating volume in the acclaimed Gotham series delivers an unforgettable portrait of New York during history’s most catastrophic conflict.
Series
Very Short Introductions Excellent long-running series of small books that are masterclasses in concision. Enticing subject tasters for the time-short and the intellectually curious. pb, £9.99, 978019 Oral History Douglas A Boyd 9th January,0067625 Alexander Hamilton RB Bernstein 9th October, 0082017 Cicero Yelena Baraz 23rd October, 2885807 Moses Maimonides Ross Brann 9th October, pb, 7536988 Postwar Europe Richard Bessel 28th August, 8851660 The Reformation Peter Marshall 23rd October, 8859062
Lineage Karin Wulf 18th September, hb, £22.99, 9780197553220
A deep understanding of genealogy as a foundational element of American history. Wulf illuminates its vital role from the colonial era through the birth of the nation.
The Napoleonic Wars Alexander Mikaberidze 6th January, pb, £22.99, 9780197695548
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, the first global history of the real first world war.
France Since 1945 Robert Gildea
28th August, pb,
£19.99, 9780198825777 Third edition explores 20 more years of French history, history writing and changing historical approaches, notably in colonial and gender history.
Europe in the Eleventh Century Charles West 1st September, hb, £35, 9780198860235
Reveals a Europe characterised by cultural and economic diversity and shaped by overarching, large- scale developments spanning political and religious borders.
Palgrave Macmillan
Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World Ville Vuolanto (ed), Oana-Maria Cojocaru (ed)
11th September, hb, eb, £44.99, 9783031854057
First scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early-modern societies.
Penguin Books
The Taiwan Story Kerry Brown 6th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781405966092
In this urgent book we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world’s future.
Pen & Sword History
Killing Monarchs Richard Heath 30th August, hb, £22, 9781036105310
Why so many British monarchs were murdered or executed, often by their own subjects.
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in the Literary 1920s Kathleen Dixon Donnelly
30th January, hb, £20, 9781036120450
Who were the Bloomsbury Group? What impact did they have on 1920s literature, art and culture? And how did they affect each other?
Emperor of Rome Anthony Smart 30th September, hb, £22, 9781036120856
Thorough appraisal of the mechanisms and uses of imperial power in the Roman Empire, from the
transition from republican power sharing to the fall of the Western empire.
A History of Romance Novels Dale DeBakcsy
30th January, hb, £22, 9781036122812
The first history of romantic literature to tell the long story of love novels from their origins in antiquity to the current romantasy explosion.
Titanic: The Searches and the Dives Richard M Jones
30th August, hb, £25, 9781036128500
The first time a book has detailed all expeditions up to 2024.
The Tudor Theatre Nicholas Fogg 30th January, hb, £25, 9781036130688
How the Tudor theatre came to be, the tempestuous era in which it thrived, the hostility it faced and the host of personalities who created it.
Looted! Peter Elliott 30th October, hb, £25, 9781036134006
History of the lives and art collections of four French Jewish families, whose art was stolen and whose businesses were confiscated during the Nazi Occupation of France.
The Other Codebreakers Harold Liberty 30th January, hb, £25, 9781036138189
Will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn more about codebreaking, the Second World War and the economics and politics of nations.
A History of Women in Piracy Roxanne Gregory
30th August, hb, £22, 9781399033657
The lives of women who defied the odds to wield power in the world of piracy, long before they could hold official positions of authority.
Pen & Sword Military
The Phantom Train Martin Sorrell, Ludivine Broch 30th September, hb, £22, 9781399043717
First English translation of a firsthand account of the longest-lasting deportation journey in modern French history.
Pluto Press
Radical Antiquity Christopher B Zeichmann 20th September, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780745350394
Written in a narrative- driven, popular-history style, Radical Antiquity upends the usual conceptions of ancient society to offer a groundbreaking history of radically democratic cultures in antiquity.
A People’s History of Portugal Raquel Varela, Roberto della Santa
20th January, pb, £19.99, 9780745351605
Reconstructing the last 200 years of struggle, this is a concise modern history of Portugal. Encompassing both colonialism and revolution, this is a history of, and for, the Portuguese people.
Princeton University Press
The West Georgios Varouxakis 2nd September, hb, eb, £35, 9780691177182
Comprehensive, intellectual history of the idea of the West.
Native America Kenneth L. Feder 30th September, hb, eb, £35, 9780691220451
Thorough history of the Indigenous peoples of North America covers more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience and continuity.
Killing the Dead John Blair 9th September, hb, eb, £30, 9780691224794
Taut history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia and why killing the dead is better than killing the living.
A History of the Muslim World Michael A Cook
6th January, pb, eb, £20, 9780691236599
Panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era.
Police Against the Movement Joshua Clark Davis
2nd December, hb, eb, £22, 9780691238838
The 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter
The First King of England David Woodman 2nd September, hb, eb, £30, 9780691249490
Enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England’s founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it.
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man Peter K Andersson
23rd September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780691250649
First biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age.
Magdalena Coline Daniel Lord Smail 13th January, hb, eb, £30, 9780691253800
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late-medieval Europe.
Pax Economica Marc-William Palen 28th October, pb, eb, £20, 9780691277882
The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists and Christians who envisioned free trade as a prerequisite for anti- imperialism and peace.
Profile Books
Tracks on the Ocean Dr Sara Caputo 4th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781788168830
Trailblazing history of how the marks left on maps tell the story of the world.
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General History
and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.
Mythopedia
Michele M Angel (illus), Adrienne Mayor 7th October, hb, eb, £10.99, 9780691247861
From acclaimed folklorist and historian Mayor an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders—and disasters— of the natural world.
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