Secondhand History Books

Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating...

For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel...

The International Bestseller This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and...

This work examines what life was like in the new communities founded by David I in the 12th century, such as Perth, Aberdeen, Elgin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It looks at...

A powerfully toldmemoir of family, separation, and the things left unsaid, in the wake of theSecond World WarRaised by her grandparents i theUSA, Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering...

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a grave in Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last Tsar and his family were murdered seventy-three years...

The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories...

These memoirs of Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill cover 50 years of public office in American politics, including 34 years as a member of Congress and a decade as Speaker of...

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024 for Nature Writing The Telegraph'One of the most remarkable figures in British conservation.' The Observer'There have been several books on the fate of British...

Drawing on sources from archaeology and written texts, the author brings out the full significance of trees in both pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxon religion.Trees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon...

After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy,...

A remarkable first-hand account of one tank commander's experiences during the Allied invasion from D-Day to VE Day.'An arresting chronicle of the life of an ordinary soldier during the push...

'A mighty, panoramic history... Firnhaber-Baker does a real service for those with an interest in France and England alike by providing a dexterous and engrossing account, a treasury for anyone...

Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945....

THE TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated by The Cut...