History

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes. 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells ...

It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its shor ...

Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. These have been retold ove ...

This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story o ...

Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basi ...

Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins ...

Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the ...

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11 world.

A gripping account of how the early Christians viciously attacked the art and teachings of the Classical world from a br ...

An epic, moving graphic novel set in ancient Athens about the birth and the rise of democracy – from the illustrator b ...

Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science ...

Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough emba ...

This title was selected for the "Daily Telegraph" Books Of The Year. If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavi ...

The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series. This final book i ...

What were gladiators? Were people really thrown to the lions? What did Romans learn at school? Find out in this entertai ...

Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the survi ...

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. Autho ...

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of "Germania" From the e ...

For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-break ...

'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain ...

In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named ...

This title contains three new editions in the popular "Discovery" series. Visually exciting and highly informative, each ...

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan from the Auschwitz museum i ...

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to read ...

Leningrad, Russia, 1968.  Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to ...

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through ...

Presents the story of one of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias.

What were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and breakdown had occurred? When would the Queen ...

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat t ...