Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war.

A witty yet moving...

From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically...

Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.
A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music,...

October 2019, Hamburg: A trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Charged with the murder of at least...

The hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis

One of the most important...

Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Oceanic mythology - in this comprehensive...

In surprising stories that take us into the worlds of hitmen, insurance frauds and modern-day slaves, Jenny Kleeman explores the...

From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have...

Beyond the unipolar moment. Russian interests and identity in the era of transformation of the world order. Расставаясь с...

How much can change in less than two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything....

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The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding...

The Celts are one of the world’s most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey...

It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence...

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome...

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second...

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part…
We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer,...

A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist...

Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily...

Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and...

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'

Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be...

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

To win the climate war, you first need to win the climate argument.

For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers...

A thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler...

We're constantly told the same things about the monarchy:

But the monarchy is good for tourism..
It isn't! Evidence points...

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...

A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.

Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory...

If you are reading this, it's likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don't think of yourself in those...