Weidenfeld Nicolson imprint: 429 books
The Day We Won The War
Turning Point At Amiens, 8 August 1918
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
How the British, ANZACs and Canadians finally broke the German army on the most decisive day of the Great War.
The British attack at Amiens was the most decisive day of the Great War. In earlier offensives, a gain of a few hundred yards counted as a 'victory', but this time our troops advanced...
The Ottoman Empire
1300-1600
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.
Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans,...
Mouse or Rat?
Translation as Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.
'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic...
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air...
Scenes and Apparitions
The Roy Strong Diaries 19882003
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMES
Scenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record...
The Believers
How America Fell For Bernard Madoff's $65 Billion Investment Scam
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.
It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had strived so hard to join, vaporising the assets...
Wings on My Sleeve
The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history.
In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve:...
by Tim Pat Coogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
From the personal to the political, this is the much-awaited memoir from Tim Pat Coogan.
Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as editor...
The Second Bounce Of The Ball
Turning Risk Into Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMES
In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is...
Going to Sea in a Sieve
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.
'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one...
Postcards to Europe
The unique must-have collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.
Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music and movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity, geography,...
Mail Obsession
A Journey Round Britain by Postcode
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
'FASCINATING' Daily Mail
'FULL OF AMAZING FACTS' The QI Elves
Each of the United Kingdom's 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and treasure.
Mark Mason has embarked on a tour of the country, immersing himself in Britain's history on a roundabout journey...
No Holding Back
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding.
As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen, Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname 'Whispering Death', claiming 249 Test wickets. Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989, it remains...
by Gwen Moffat
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers, now the subject of the acclaimed film documentary Operation Moffat.
In 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch rider in the Army and went to live rough in Wales...