History

Published with Imperial War Museums (IWM), The First World War 1914-1918 shows the wide sweep of the conflict, spotlighting some of the obscure but important actions as well as the major battles and the soldiers who fought them.

Published with Imperial War Museums (IWM), The First World War 1914-1918 shows the wide sweep of the conflict, spotlighting some of the obscure but important actions as well as the major battles and the soldiers who fought them.

Published with Imperial War Museums (IWM), The First World War 1914-1918 shows the wide sweep of the conflict, spotlighting some of the obscure but important actions as well as the major battles and the soldiers who fought them.

Since World War I, Cyprus has played a crucial role in British defence strategy. This book introduces research which reveals the true role of British intelligence on the island throughout the twentieth century, particularly during World War II, the 1955-59 Archbishop Makarios and EOKA-led revolt and the 1974 Turkish invasion.

From 1943 to 1945, the Allied bombing offensive escalated to unprecedented levels. This title presents an account of this battle in the skies over Europe, from the perspective of the men who undertook the highly dangerous job of flying the bombers.

This book is full of essential info from prehistory to the present day, broken down into fun, bite-size facts.

Produced in association with Imperial War Museums, 1918: How the First World War Was Won gives a detailed account of the final year of the war.

A work that covers American Democracy, reform, attacks on property, democracy as an inevitable fact, Upper Chambers, taxation and its causes, proposals for reforming the House of Lords, Mormonism, religious liberty, Catholicism and democracy in Ireland, Socialism, working practices, emancipation, and ...

A brilliant new history of the life of Henry VIII to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of his accession, by a master of narrative history.

Recounts a series of tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons and plastic soldiers. ...

Humble Pie and Cold Turkey is an engaging historical exploration of the bizarre words and phrases that are sprinkled throughout the English Language. Designed to be easily accessible, this digestible book informs and entertains the budding linguist in equal measure.

This work tells the story of how in 1870, four travellers in Dilessi, Greece, three British and one Italian, were kidnapped by bandits and held for ransom. The negotiations were botched and eventually the four were murdered. The episode tested the relations of the young Greek state with Britain.

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving waters. Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs associated ...

Conceived in 1907, Titanic was two years in design and 37 months in construction at the great Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was the biggest ship the world had ever seen, and thought by many to be indestructible. But she sank just five days into her maiden voyage, en route ...

On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from China, commanded by Emperor Zhu Di to go to the "end of the earth". Their journey would last over two years and circle the entire globe. This historical detective story traces the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet.

The date 22 November 1963 is forever fixed in history and the world's memory as the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated. This book tells the complete story of this event, from the assassination itself, to new and increasingly bizarre theories. It also features 100 images and 10 items of removable memorabilia.

Explores the volatile, emotional territory which is the hidden history of domestic service. This book is a study of one of Britain's greatest literary modernists. It is a testimony to the ways in which individual creativity always needs the support of others.

In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects ...