History

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's most influential civilisations... the book comes with impeccable timing... An entertaining and informative read for anyone...

A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ONDAATJE PRIZE'A masterful portrait of one of the world's greatest cities... A must-read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Such a delightful read' KATJA HOYER,...

In this founding work in the literature of black protest, Du Bois eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that...

'A gripping, behind-the-curtain story of the men and women who rebuilt the world after the carnage of World War II-and, in the process, engineered an age of unprecedented peace and...

Written by Dr. Paul Bahn, one of the world's most prominent experts on prehistoric art, archeology and ancient history, "Exploring the Ancient World" is a beautiful, full-colour guide to the...

In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as...

This is the story of four 18th-century sisters, Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, great-grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832. Caroline eloped with an ambitious...

A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs Where has our planet...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake comes a gripping true story of murder, war and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence 'I...

WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2025A FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe. The German...

The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of...

THE ROYAL GIFT OF THE YEAR!THE SCANDALOUS TRUTH BEHIND THE CROWN - FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES: THE BIOGRAPHY'A compelling look inside...

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a...

'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the...

The thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe.When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of...

''A sweeping tour-de-force of investigative journalism'' - Time magazineIn 2011, in a city in northern Syria, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal...

A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height...

'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday TelegraphEach of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military...

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs...

Why did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?Part of DK's indispensable Big Ideas series,...

--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful...

New York Times bestseller An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course...

Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the...

This authoritative and well written book recreates the battle for Stalingrad that became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome and vicious war for the Eastern...

A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor...

The gripping memoir of 98-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor Justus Rosenberg, who risked everything to join the French Resistance and smuggle people out of Nazi territory during World War II. In...

Textual and historical notes supplement a segment of Plutarch's Lives which covers the rise of Macedonia.

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry...

The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the...

This is the epic story of the Great Persian War of 481-479 BC, the major land and sea Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes. Starting from the Persian decision to...

The holocaust began for the Slovka Jews in Autumn of 1938, when Slovakia became an autonomous region. Jewish property was confiscated and businesses liquidated at bargain prices all in an...

What do we really know about the sources of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism? What led him to become such a genocidal anti-Semite?It is often said that the strongly anti-Semitic atmosphere in...