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After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - they were supposed to be the answer ...
Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution. After commanding a small troop in ...
A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served
Founded ...
In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around ...
The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 has captured the imagination and stimulated renewed interest in the history and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The ...
Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?
Don't bet your afterlife on it.
Ancient Egypt should be deader than most ...
Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became ...
The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to ...
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics
''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion ...
A major interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies
'Give me chastity, but ...
Based on twenty years of research, a book that rewrites the history of the Eisenhower presidency
"Irwin Gellman has emerged from years in the archives ...
Publishing in advance of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, Brand Luther fuses the history of religion, of printing, and of capitalism-the literal marketplace of ideas-into ...