History

Tabitha Stanmore Paperback It's 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing trial. Maybe you're looking for ...

Rashid I. Khalidi Paperback / softback 336 pages, Maps and b&w photos The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of natio...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 288...

Author: Sunil Amrith, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 432...

Author: William Dalrymple, Cover: Softback, Pages: 608...

John Kampfer Paperback 400 pages Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past...

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 528 pages One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would ha...

Author: Ian Johnson, Cover: Softback, Pages: 400...

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 576...

Author: Charlie Porter, Cover: Softback, Pages: 368...

Hampton Sides Paperback On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years l...

George Stephanopoulos Paperback 368 pages George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, ...

Florian Illies Paperback 336 pages 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anx...

Jacques R. Pauwels Paperback 384 pages At a time when it's all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history text...

Ian Mortimer Paperback 256 pages The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as...

Anna Reid Paperback From the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine The extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution. In ...

Irene Vallejo Softback 464 pages An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and readingLong before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback 1344 pages From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thi...

Antony Beevor Paperback 592 pages, Integrated illustrations throughout and several maps Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist e...

Alex Rowson Paperback 512 pages This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mys...

Michael Ashcroft Hardback 464 pages With a Foreword by Lord Hague of Richmond The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. It has existed in...

Professor Prof Roderick Beaton Paperback 608 pages The Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics o...

Levi Roach Paperback 301 pages How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freeboot...

Michael Pye Softback 400 pages This is a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the worl...