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'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz
From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow.
In the summer ...
This various, rich and enjoyable book tells the story of the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of ...
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything
The Enlightenment did not begin in ...
A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians
A ...
A powerful account of German-speaking Europe through five centuries of fighting
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of ...
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't ...
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the ...
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century.
The Ottoman Empire had been one of ...
'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors
'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive ...
Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world ...
A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time.
The written word has the power to inspire, astonish and entertain, as this ...
Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every ...
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston
'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history ...
A humorous and informative guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.
History is the ...
He pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft ...