History

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris... a good place to start for anyone seeking...

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'Monumental and highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok brings a prescient and fresh perspective' Financial TimesA sweeping, original history...

An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest state and its decline and fallWith Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one...

Simo Hayha (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with...

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of...

In the autumn of 1846 the Navajo warrior Narbona looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole...

This is an account of the collapse of Montezuma's Mexican Empire under the onslaughts of Cortes's Conquistadors. At the beginning the reader is introduced to the capital city of the...

Acclaimed historian Max Arthur pays tribute to the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1945 and VE Day, drawing on the personal stories of those who have served during this period,...

Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human...

'Splendid... a triumph' John Lewis Stempel, Sunday Express'Compelling' Sunday Times'History writing at its best' Booklist (starred review)1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying...

Composed in exile in the 1930s and pub lished as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin's Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of child hood...

Up in the Air tells the story of Britain's multistorey council housing from its beginnings to the present day. Across the decades, the high rise has symbolised the welfare state...

Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604....

A bold and balanced re-appraisal of New Labour in power.Rewriting the story of New Labour, Glen O'Hara challenges the prevailing narrative to present a more balanced and positive assessment. New...

This is the story of the most intense and bitterly fought battles of the twentieth century, and their lasting impact on the world. From Amiens in the First World War...

'I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of time.'TOM HOLLAND'Tender, moving and vivid.'ROBERT MACFARLANE'Beautiful'STEPHEN...

Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or...

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 START THE WEEK'Glittering' PHILIP BALL'Superb' TIM MINSHALL'A globetrotting, time-travelling account of the roots of chemistry' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThe first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers...

The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia.Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia...

From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history'Fascinating, gripping, vividly detailed, this is a wonderful book full...

'A rich, lively and nostalgia-provoking sensory experience ... this is history in its messiest, most bustling human essence' THE TIMES'Like being in the company of a chatty, trusted friend' LUCY...

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic...

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor...

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...

The Second World War was the largest and most appalling military conflagration in history. It killed millions of people. It destroyed much of the old Europe. It altered the world...

This work reveals the role played by the Swiss banks and the Swiss government in exploiting World War II and the Holocaust to their financial advantage; a role which included...

'Vivid and compelling' - The Telegraph'A propulsive, gorgeously reported account of the forces that re-shaped New York in the late 1980s, The Gods of New York is brilliant historical non-fiction...