Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entoura...

A thought-provoking reflection on pilgrimage past and present, and a compelling exploration of its relevance today.The enormous rise in popularity ...

'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO 'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world t...

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer -...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

''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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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

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...

‘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...

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

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

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...

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

'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, ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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