Second Hand Non-Fiction

While the correspondence between the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson has been preserved and...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he...

In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, "likely to be definitive for many years to...

The International Criminal Court, the world's first truly global war crimes court, began work formally...

Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign,...

Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did...

The third volume in the famous trilogy covers Garibaldi's role in the events of June...

When I walked through the office door each day, I knewthat almost every decision I...

An urgent investigation into warfare, good, and evil in the age of biometrics, the technology...

Emmet graduated from Melbourne University in Law in 1879 and Arts 1886. He won the...

A few weeks before the 2013 election, Lee married the love of his life. Less...

Darwin's Armanda is both a gripping adventure story and a brilliantly enlightening work of history,...

The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at...

For more than three decades, ever since 1971, Woody Allen has been talking regularly and...

Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten,...

For decades, scholars and politicians have vigorously debated whether Confucianism is compatible with democracy, yet...

What happens when you look at graffiti and street art as unlimited art forms instead...

Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominatedby high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes...

The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness...

This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China's progress...

The introduction into British army service of the Challenger2 Main Battle Tank (MBT) was originally...

Brewer's Britain and Ireland is a Brewer's-style reference book about place-names and the historical associations...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN...

Deeply moving...an honest and courageous book filled with love for a very special little cat...

This illustrated memoir follows the life story of iconic Sydney restaurateur Beppi Polese. Beppi is...

In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us...

The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark...

Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published...