This book is a wonderful review of pictures and text which captures the history of 20 South African Schools. Schools form the foundation of society...

A personal journey into the family archives of a talented photographer, this book explores Paul Weinberg's past as he retraces his family's footpri...

This is the story of Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Franschhoek, Paarl, Wellington and Tulbagh, which developed from lonely outposts of the Dutch Eas...

In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre o...

This keepsake book is a space to record the family traditions, memories and stories that make each family unique. Featuring prompts on everything f...

Stals Prize for History Sciences (2004)Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction (2004)The bestselling narrative history of a group often despised, but nev...

In The Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the pre...

The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons, mainly volunteers, trav...

The recent past is so often neglected when people research their family history, yet it can be one of the most rewarding periods to explore, and so...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service es...

Follow the epic 5,000-year story of warfare - from the earliest battles to the War on Terror - with this guided tour of every major conflict. ...

This is WWII history, as it happened. All the horror and excitement of eleven months that changed the world.On D-Day (6 June 1944) a team of BBC re...

The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799 1877 was in many ways a 'prequel' to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did m...

Do you know where you came from? Who Do You Think You Are? has been a BBC hit since its first series in 2004, which ignited an extraordinary boom i...

World War II from Above offers a never-before-seen combination of annotated satellite images and expertly drawn battle maps. It aims to satisfy bot...

The World War II Secret Operations Handbook lets you in on the skills and tricks used by the British SOE (Special Operations Executive), the US OSS...

Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding co...

Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding co...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting...

Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence agents who wined, dined and befriended the leading ...

A CONFLICT LIKE NO OTHER, it has come to define the very idea of war itself. Great power rivalry prepared the ground, yet so did bitter ethnic disp...

In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story ...

Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most priv...

Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe’s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral ima...

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the e...

The epic adventure story of humanity’s obsession with the North Pole, from Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge who travelled there in 1990 Throughout r...

The House of Stone delves into the tragic history of Zimbabwe through the lens of over 250 literary works. It examines the profound losses and desp...

Discover the world''s most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years. When did Hannibal cross the ...

'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?'- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, ...

Before the East India Company and the British Empire, England was a pariah state. Seeking better fortunes, 16th and 17th century merchants, pilgrim...

Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against fa...

The greatest conversation in the history of Hollywood. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like ...

From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s greatest sc...

The second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' (The Times) - also including puzzles and a quiz!Tom Hollan...

‘There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war… We shall see.’ Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris During the Second World War, American an...

This book traces the history of the Third Reich, from the Nazi movement's beginnings in the beer halls of 1920s Germany to the outcome of the Nurem...

A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of Appeasing Hitler‘An astonishing ...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed...

The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years. These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggre...

At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this d...

‘Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.’ This is the story of those few, in their own words. In the summer of 1940, the British frontli...