Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Written around 1645, Miyamoto Musashi’s Five Rings is a classic Japanese work on mastery in swordsmanship, leadership and...

Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape...

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...

Embark upon a fascinating journey through ancient Greece – from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western...

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed...

Learn about the world's most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.

Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series,...

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

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...

A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent

Essex Girls are disreputable,...

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....

Guy John, Fox Julia

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

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...

Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate...

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...

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

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