GENERAL HISTORY
Awards 2021. Full-scale, interdisciplinary treat- ment of the connections between the Gaelic world and the Northumbrian kingdom.
British Museum Press
Luxury and Power: James Fraser, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Henry Bishop-Wright 20th April, hb, £35, 9780714111964 Eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury—together with its positive and negative connotations—in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600 and 200BCE.
Cambridge University Press
Purpose and Power Donald Stoker 27th April, hb, eb, £27.99, 9781009257275 New account of grand strategy critical to understanding how America has used its power in both peace and war.
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge Nikki M Taylor 30th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781009276849 Powerful stories of enslaved women who waged lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance.
Untied Kingdom Stuart Ward 2nd February, hb, eb, £30, 9781107145993 Panoramic history uncovering the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea after the Second World War.
Camden House
Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership
Elisabeth Krimmer (ed), Patricia Anne Simpson (ed) 7th March, pb, eb, £27.99, 9781640141568 Collection of essays achieving a deeper under- standing of the histori- cal roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fanta- sies of German female leadership.
Chartwell Books
Edward S Curtis Portraits Wayne Youngblood 21st February, hb, £22, 9780785839743 In 1906, JP Morgan commissioned Edward
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S Curtis to produce a series of books depicting Native American life. This volume contains 250 of the project’s haunting portraits.
Chatto & Windus
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740-1776) Peter Moore 29th June, hb, eb, £25, 9781784743192 Sweeping new work of narrative history from bestselling historian traces the Enlightenment ideas that gave birth to the United States of America.
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes Kate Strasdin 23rd February, hb, eb, £20, 9781784743819 The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman’s life— from family and friends to industry and Empire—told through her unique textile scrapbook.
Chronos Books
The Queen’s Frog Prince: The Courtship of Elizabeth I and the Duke of Anjou David Lee 30th June, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781803411644 Forgotten love story of England’s Virgin Queen and the husband that was denied to her.
Avoiding Apocalypse Jeff Colvin 28th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781803411989 Account of the astonishing sequence of events set in motion by scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union.
Lightbulb Moments in Human History Scott Williams 24th February, pb, eb, £20.99, 9781803412009 Wry look at humanity’s big ideas proves that while times are tough, we are not going to hell in a handbasket.
Coronet
(Un)civilised Subhadra Das 2nd May, hb, eb, £20, 9781399704359 Asks readers to open their eyes to the why behind how they think the world works.
It’s a Continent Chinny Ukata, Astrid Madimba 6th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529376814 Illuminating history book
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Road to Surrender Evan Thomas 8th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781783967292 Immersive account of the agonising decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in the Second World War II and in geopolitical history.
The Man With Miraculous Hands
that aims to unravel misconceptions and celebrate Africa’s rich and diverse history, one coun- try at a time.
Edinburgh University Press
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks: 20th and Early 21st Centuries Antonis Liakos, Nicholas Doumanis 30th April, pb, £35, 9781474410847 Innovative account of modern Greek history covering the last 100 years.
Historicising Ancient Slavery Kostas Vlassopoulos 28th February, pb, £24.99, 9781474487221 New framework for study- ing slaves and slavery in ancient societies.
Eglantyne Books
Drunk on Power Henrich Pfeifer 15th April, hb, £29.99, 9781913378103 The secret history of the Nazi deep state as told by the top defector from the Security Service who was assassinated following first publication in 1949.
Who Killed the King? Vol 2 Robert Temple 15th February, hb, £25, 9781913378110 In this second volume, the author proves that Oliver Cromwell was not the driving force behind the trial and execution of King Charles I.
Elliott & Thompson
Joseph Kessel 9th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781783966936 The incredible story of Felix Kersten who used his influence over Henrich Himmler to save thousands of lives during the Second World War.
Dancing for Stalin Christina Ezrahi 16th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781783966981 The true story of an innocent woman sent to the Gulag in Soviet Russia and how her passion for dance gave her the will to survive.
Europa Editions
Lenin Walked on the Moon Michel Eltchaninoff 8th June, pb, £14.99, 9781787704756 How a Soviet cosmic dream becomes modern reality. Discover the Russian movement known as cosmism: blending science, mysticism and metaphysics to cheat death, free the spirit, and colonise space.
Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management Johann Chapoutot 27th April, pb, £14.99, 9781787704459 What if the rules of modern management were written during the Third Reich? ”A brilliant, stereotype defying study”—Les Temps.
Faber & Faber
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain Matthew Green 2nd March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780571338030 Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. The untold story of the hidden places across Britain that have slipped through the fingers of history.
The Premonitions Bureau Sam Knight 6th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571357574 The story of a strange experiment and a journey into the oddest corners of 1960s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason.
Goldsmiths Press
Dissonant Waves Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie 16th May, pb, £36, 9781913380564 Investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how
a generation of cultural operators—with Ernst Schoen at the centre— addressed crisis and adversity.
Greenhill Books
The Sinking of the Titanic Jay Henry Mowbray 30th March, pb, £14.99, 9781784388676 Details that fateful April night from a multitude of different perspectives.
Greystone Books
Pandexicon Wayne Grady 27th April, hb, £16.99, 9781778400391 Exploration of the many new terms of the pandemic provides insight into how vocabulary helped us adapt to a new reality.
Guardian Faber
Red Memory Tania Branigan 2nd February, hb, eb, £20, 9781783352647 Examination of the Cultural Revolution interrogates how it shapes China today. Uncovers 40 years of silence through rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through it.
Harper
Nervous Systems Andreas Killen 16th February, hb, £25, 9780062572653 Historical mining of our obsession with the brain points to the research and experiments of the Cold War era as both the genesis and instigator for our continued fascination.
HarperNorth
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras Kate Fox 16th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008472924 From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, an entertaining and eye-opening journey in the company of extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden.
The Last Train Peter Bradley 11th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008475000 Profound and intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust follows the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain.
All the Wide Border Mike Parker
HarperOne
Driving the Green Book Alvin Hall 30th March, hb, £22, 9780063271968 Hall travels the roadways to find witnesses who used or advertised their lodgings and restaurants in The Green Book—the guide that helped Black Americans travel safely right up until the late 1960s.
Harvard University Press
Ilse Koch on Trial Tomaz Jardim 28th April, hb, £30.95, 9780674249189 Authoritative reassess- ment of one of the Third Reich’s most notorious war criminals whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapegoat and obscured the true nature of Nazi terror.
The Project-state and Its Rivals Charles S Maier 26th May, hb, £39.95, 9780674290143 An original history of the institutions that shaped politics and societies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Madman in the White House Patrick Weil 30th June, hb, £30.95, 9780674291614 Notorious psychobiogra- phy of Woodrow Wilson, rediscovered nearly a century after it was writ- ten, sheds new light on how the mental health of a controversial American president shaped world events.
Headline
The Red Hotel Alan Philps 27th April, hb, eb, £22, 9781035401307 Philps explores how Stalin created his own reality by constraining British and American reporters covering the Eastern
30th March, hb, £20, 9780008499181 Funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging traces the scenic route along the England-Wales border.
Sabine’s War Eva Taylor 25th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008519186 Astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery in the Second World War.
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