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Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study
The idea that nothing happens by chance in history ...
In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele ...
The latest volume in Paul Rahe's expansive history of Sparta's response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy
"Paul Rahe stands out ...
Archaeological sites tell a story spanning thousands of years, and the ones in this book range from the well-known to hidden gems, handpicked for their ...
Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried ...
The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order
Steam power transformed our world, initiating ...
The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers
Charles, King of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ...
The fascinating story of how Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana and the SAS changed the world
The early 1980s were the most dramatic, colourful and controversial ...
"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read."-Nature
The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising ...
In Budapest, a lone woman dies quietly on a bench in the late afternoon sun, while in South Africa, a group of men plunge to ...
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Village of Secrets, comes the extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during WW2 ...
Bitter Harvest is a comprehensive appraisal of Bruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu. Pascoe postulates that, rather than being a nomadic hunter-gatherer society, Australian Aborigines ...
Geoffrey Robertson focuses his razor-sharp mind on one of the greatest contemporary issues in the worlds of art and culture- the return of cultural property ...
Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine - whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek ...
As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately ...