‘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...

''Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world'' The T...

In 2003 Jan van Aken almost helped stop a war. But as he was preparing to go to Baghdad to search for biological weapons, he got a message: the US ...

Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the major events and milestones in the history of warfare – from the dawn of civilization to the 21st ...

Western civilisation is a powerful brand, full of accepted wisdoms like ‘knowledge is power’, ‘time is money’, and ‘justice is blind’ that we rarel...

Sensitive and sweeping, this is a history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century...

From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the ...

Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the count...

The landmark history book from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Based on the highly acclaimed podcast with over 1 million subscribers, Fall of Ci...

*A Telegraph History Book of the Year, 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'A remarkably moving and humane book' WILLIAM BOYDAn intimate...