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A Cold Spell
A Human History of Ice
2024 || Paperback || Max Leonard || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet
'Bracingly original . . . As the earth warms threateningly, there could hardly be a more pertinent time for a story like this' MICHAEL PALIN
'A book of limitless fascinations' OLIVIA LAING
'Brightly written, nimbly researched and really quite delightful' LITERARY RE...
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Antarctica
A History in 100 Objects
2024 || Hardcover || Dr Jean de Pomereu e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Weimar Years
Rise and Fall 1918–1933
2024 || Hardcover || Frank McDonough || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The prequel to Frank McDonough's Hitler Years series, covering the period of German history that led to the rise of Hitler in 1933.
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Putin's Wars
From Chechnya to Ukraine
2024 || Hardcover || Mark Galeotti || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics
'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times
A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.
Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the...
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Courting India
England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
2024 || Paperback || Nandini Das || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times
'A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in dazzling technicolour' - Spectator
'Beautifully written and masterfully researched,...
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The Rest is History
The official book from the makers of the hit podcast
2024 || Paperback || Goalhanger Podcasts e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. Pre-order your copy now.
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask:
- Did the Trojan War actuall...
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Providence Lost
The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
2024 || Hardcover || Paul Lay || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government - and one of the most extraordinary but neglected periods in British history.
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Powers and Thrones
A New History of the Middle Ages
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.