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The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever
The ...
The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed ...
A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan
In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one ...
From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the ...
'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them ...
'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 ...
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new ...
DISCOVER THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST RELIGION
Who really was Jesus Christ? How did Christianity spread around the world? And how has Christian ...
The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed historian
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ...
"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator
"Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK)
"Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry Brotton
The unlikely beginnings of the East India ...
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century ...
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for ...
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation ...
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll ...
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the ...