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Adventure In Time - The Second World War by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History | Series: Adventures in Time Ser.
Travel back in time to a world at war, with the first book in a thrilling new children's history series'It was two-thirty in the morning. Darkness hung over the coast of France...'Prepare for a journey back into the most dramatic conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us ...Show more
Adventures in Time: The Fall of the Aztecs by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Young Adult | Series: Adventure Time Ser.
Discover the lost world of the Aztecs with the latest instalment in the hit children's history series The Aztec Empire had been blessed by the gods. Its pyramid temples were warmed by the sun, its fields were thick with corn, its bustling marketplaces were full of feathers, pottery and jewellery. But th ...Show more
Fury of the Vikings (#6 Adventures in Time) by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Education | Series: Adventure Time Ser.
Travel back to a vanished world with the celebrated children's history series 'Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the warriors from the north - the Vikings...' Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as ...Show more
The Brides of Death - The Wives of Henry VIII by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History | Series: Adventures in Time Ser.
Journey back to the world of the Tudors, with the second book in an exciting new children's history seriesWinter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...Step through these pages and into the Tudor court- a dangerous world, where one misstep could cost your life. Throu ...Show more
The Great British Dream Factory - The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
Spectator, Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Books of the Year 2015. Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic terms, we no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one a ...Show more
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thuc ...Show more
Who Dares Wins - Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent history. Margaret Thatcher had come to power in 1979 with a daring plan to reverse Britain's decline into shabbiness and chaos. But as fa ...Show more
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