Weidenfeld Nicolson imprint: 429 books
by Bryan Perrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Stories of outstanding bravery on the battlefield
The Victoria Cross, a simple bronze cross inscribed For Valour on the front and engraved with the recipient's name, rank, number, unit and the date of the action on the reverse, was first awarded by Queen Victoria - in a ceremony in Hyde Park...
by Bryan Perrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A fascinating study of the changing face of the art of warfare over the past 2000 years, by one of today's most readable historians
Mankind has always been in conflict. Without war, there would be no peace, no stability, no safety. Men go to war to defend, or acquire, territory that they see...
by Bryan Perrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The story of dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success.
From the Napoleonic Wars to Korea, Bryan Perrett has found a further 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. The events take place...
Great British Food Revival
Blanche Vaughan, Michel Roux jr, Angela Hartnett, Gregg Wallace, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Hairy Bike
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Featuring Britain's most delicious but threatened ingredients THE GREAT BRITISH FOOD REVIVAL celebrates local produce in classic recipes written by Britain's favourite cooks
Britain is home to the tastiest fruits and vegetables, fish, meat, and honeys in the world but many of our original species...
Bloody April
Slaughter in the Skies Over Arras, 1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917
As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes. The new German Albatros scouts massively...
Jutland, 1916
Death in the Grey Wastes
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.
On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries,...
by Robert Kee
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp.
From the beginning he was intent on escape. After several false starts,...
Paths of Glory
The French Army, 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military, and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He reveals why and how the French army fought as it did. He profiles its senior commanders - Joffre, Petain, Nivelle and Foch - and analyses...
by Michael Gove
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Celsius 7/7 analyses how the West's approach to fundamentalism is destined to lead to further atrocities.
In his column which appeared in The Times on the morning of 9/11, Michael Gove prophetically argued that the West's policy of appeasement towards terror was destined to provoke yet greater...
The Detective Branch
From the author of The Last Days of Newgate
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Pyke joins the newly formed Detective Branch of the Metropolitan police in a tale of corruption and murder set in the dangerous backstreets of 19th-century London...
Drury Lane, 1844. A robbery has been committed at a pawnbroker's, leaving three people dead. The man called in to investigate...
by George Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The ROOM BY ROOM series is a set of short essential guides to transform your house into your ideal home.
Each one is full of top tips and golden rules from award-winning architect and TV home-improvement guru George Clarke. From designing layouts, budgeting and lighting advice, through to storage...
Waiting For Monsieur Bellivier
A dazzling mystery set in contemporary Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
'Are you waiting for Monsieur Bellivier, madame?'
Helena should of course say no. She doesn't know the man talking to her, she doesn't know Monsieur Bellivier, and she certainly isn't waiting for him. But, bored of life, and sparked by a whim, she says yes.
Mancebo, a Tunisian shopkeeper,...
The Great Philosophers: Derrida
Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.
Jacques Derrida 1930-2004
As critics investigate the 'death of the author', they find Derrida's prints all over the murder weapon. No other recent philosopher has aroused so much suspicion - or been so badly misrepresented.
His every idea...
Time's Anvil
England, Archaeology and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.
History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories say, how they are told, who tells them and how we listen.
In a dazzlingly wide-ranging...