History

Bettany Hughes Paperback Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of ...

Jane Draycott Paperback / softback 336 pages Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were ...

Michael Palin Paperback From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out m...

Dan Jones Paperback 288 pages Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politi...

Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Paperback 736 pages Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Pro...

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...

Anna Funder Paperback 304 pages In this classic work, Funder brings us the extraordinary stories of those who lived in East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at sixtee...

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...

Gyles Brandreth Hardback 576 pages Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Thro...

Hannah Rose Woods Hardback 400 pages Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hun...

Justin Fenton Paperback 352 pages Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades. Fo...

David van Reybrouck Paperback 656 pages Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Rob...

PaperbackChris Gosden Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe - has develop...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 400, Author: Charles Freeman...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 376, Author: Jeremy Mynott...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 304, Author: Lee Jackson...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 464, Author: Richard Cockett...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 544, Author: Timothy Snyder...

Randall Sullivan Hardback 352 pages How we explain the evils of the world - and the darkest parts of ourselves - has preoccupied humans throughout history. In The Devil's Best Trick, Randall S...

Author: David McWilliams , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 416...

Author: Jack Weatherford , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 368 pages...

Iain Dale Paperback Were the signs that Putin is a ruthless dictator there all along? How should we deal with President Xi of China? Given the world seems to be moving more and more in favour of ...

Author: Fergal Tobin, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

Author: Serhii Plokhy, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 224...