History

From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern Britain.

From Bull to St Petersburg: Four hard years of Stragegy and Bloodshed.

Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War.

Delves into the premiership's 300 year history and unearths a host of facts about some of the characters in British history, lifting the lid on the top job. This title talks about the Prime Minister who only lasted 100 days, another who served for 21 years, or how Downing Street came to be the Premier's residence.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of man's landing on the moon, this title is the ultimate gift book for all space enthusiasts. Packed with facts and photographs, the book recounts the events of the momentous landing, including descriptions of the Apollo 11 craft and details on daily life for the crew ...

Teenage provides a panoramic scope for his talents.'
INDEPENDENT

'Savage has produced a book that may well change how people think about teenagers.'
GUARDIAN

(This book is part of a reissue of Jon Savage's seminal works: 1966, Teenage, and England's Dreaming)

In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis--a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery.

Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather ...

From the back streets of London to neon-soaked Las Vegas, organized crime is the world's biggest and most profitable business. A truly global enterprise, no country can claim to be free from the taint of this ever-growing threat to established society. This explosive investigation reveals the past, present ...

Born when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, the Queen Mother married into the Royal Family in 1923, and has earned a place in the nation's heart. This work offers a tribute to the Queen Mother.

Europe's Restorations were characterised by their evolving dialectics. The chapters in this first volume address the key questions and controversies of Napoleonic history from a national and international perspective. From the re-ordering of the European world through the tools of intervention, occupation ...

Shedding light on British war aims and maritime strategy, this book is suitable for scholars of Napoleonic Wars and British political, diplomatic, economic and maritime/military history.

The publishers of Britain at War in Colour, America at War in Color and the Imperial War Museum's Second World War in Photographs have scoured the world's archives to find over 250 startling colour images of the Third Reich. These powerful photographs show for the first time how wartime forces and civilians ...

During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second ...

Shows how Einstein developed his theories. This book reveals the man behind the science, from his early years and thought experiments in Germany, to his marriages and children, his role in the development of the Atomic Bomb and his work for Civil Rights groups in the United States.

Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England.

Offers the story of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This book aims to capture the essence of this green and pleasant land in 100 episodes. From the hooded druids of Stonehenge to the hoodied chavs of the Bluewater Shopping Centre, it recalls the nation's towering achievements and darkest hours.

The book is a study of the Early Ottoman Peloponnese in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463). It presents the historical geography of the Peloponnese, its demography and explores its administrative and economic structures, concentrating on the Ottoman timar system and taxation.

New exploration of classic story of Victorian espionage and murder

Iain Hutchison's book traces the major developments in a particularly turbulent phase ofScottish history.