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

From pre-colonial Nigeria to the rich plains of Rwanda, from the hills of Madagascar to apartheid South Africa, historian Akpan traces the lives of...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world. Since t...

THE INSTANT NYT BESTSELLER'Fascinating' - The GuardianA gripping account of the little-known plot that could have put an end to JFK's historic pres...

Explore the world's most fascinating historical and contemporary buildings, from ancient pyramids to hi-tech skyscrapers, in this essential guide t...

People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely a...

The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and th...

An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history: Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection despite mounti...

The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages The world has existed for over 4 billion years,...

Packed with illustrations and fascinating facts, this book tells the story of the events that shaped our world.From the origins of the first humans...

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered pa...

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 ...

An acclaimed international bestseller which tells the story of Europe’s most admired and feared country, from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von B...

This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians c...

In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading...

13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization synthesizes the latest research and information from a range of disciplines to tell the compelling stor...