History

This book, neither a work of history nor travel writing, is a journey into the ruins of a landscape to make sense of these stories through the lives of five men and one woman.

Peter Hennessy charts the turbulent years of 2021 and 2022.

Interned in a remote country house by MI6 after the war, the German physicists who worked to make a Nazi atomic bomb were secretly recorded. This book shows just how close they came and their disbelief as the Allies attack Hiroshima.

This updated edition includes expanded coverage on the Second World War, as well as new sections on Finns in America and Russia, the centenary of the republic, and Finland's battle with COVID-19, right up to its historic application to join NATO.

A thrilling narrative biography of William Barker Cushing, the Civil War's most celebrated naval hero.

October 1864. The fearsome Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had taken control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. 21-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched ...

Authoritative, yet accessible account of the history of the international organisation. Essential for those interested in 20th-century history, WWI, World History and International Relations, Global Policy and Government.

As Neil Barnett shows in this short but engaging biography, The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspirational partisan leader and scourge of the Germans during their occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War; a doctrinaire communist but an ever-present thorn in Moscow's side.

Prime Minister known for announcing 'that Britain favoured a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine'.

With Owen's characteristic insight and expertise, Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma depicts a relationship governed by principle as often as by suspicion, expediency, and outright necessity.

This book explores the histories of urban communities in the three cities of Ajmer, Nagaur and Pushkar in Rajasthan, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries

A biography of the intriguing life of the unknown Liberal British Prime Minister.

Jack the Ripper is the only book that enables the reader to travel back into the London of 1888 by recreating key scenes from Jack the Ripper's murders in pin-point accuracy, using the power of CGI. Through detailed and atmospheric crime scene recreations, and thoroughly researched text written by experts ...

In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces and circumstances that shaped this nation. It tells of Britain's imperial visions and schemes, and of how their failure cast a shadow on the story of Singapore's incorporation into the Federation of Malaysia and expulsion from it.

Clark's vivid portrayal is full of evocative portraits of a new breed of politician, the forerunners of all those who, later in the last century and in this one, overcame a system from which they had been excluded for too long.

A fascinating examination on how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how - regardless of political leanings - every individual can act as both the suppressors and the suppressed.

New paperback edition of critically acclaimed, lively and gripping account of the British invasion and occupation of Iraq and of the Arab revolt against it, the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Vividly brings to life key players such as Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Sir Mark Sykes.

The thrilling story of Cairo's decadent nightlife in the early 20th century, told with women at the centre.

The extraordinary true story of a flamboyant Indian prince who married an English chambermaid, of his place in the British monarchy and his eventual betrayal. The author is the great-granddaughter of the Nawab - this is her family story.

Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime

An illustrated portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from best-selling author Dan Jones.