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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: Fury of the Vikings by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Non-Fiction
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'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 ...Show more
Adventures in Time: The Fall of the Aztecs by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Children's | 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
Alexander the Great (#2 Adventures in Time) by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Adventure Time Ser.
Join Alexander the Great on a journey to the end of the world, in the third book in a thrilling new children's history series 'His mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny . . . ' Alexander has one, wild dream- to rule the world. A ...Show more
Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile (#5 Adventures in Time) by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Adventure Time Ser.
Journey back to Ancient Egypt with the celebrated children's history series Born into the richest dynasty in the world, young Cleopatra has always dreamed of glory and empire. And when she defeats her brother and sister to become Pharaoh of Egypt, she is certain the gods have chosen her for greatness. B ...Show more
Fury of the Vikings (#6 Adventures in Time) by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: Popular History
In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians h ...Show more
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
This is the book behind the major new BBC2 series "The Seventies". "If I were a younger man I would emigrate". (James Callaghan)...In the mid-1970s, Britain's fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest point since the Blitz. As inflation rocketed, the pound collapsed and car bombs exploded across Lond ...Show more
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain - the book behind the major BB2 series "The Seventies". The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the r ...Show more
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seeme ...Show more
State of Emergency : The Way We Were, Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
Category: History
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seeme ...Show more