Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval...

In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the...

Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare.
In 2011 alone, the US deployed...

Hennessy... , Jinks...

'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about...

Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes

More people died in...

Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a...

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's...

In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view...

Meet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. It's claimed that they...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America

Barack...

In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to...

An almighty storm hit Berlin in the last days of April 1945. Enveloped by the unstoppable force of East and West, explosive...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our...

London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down,...

You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story.

From its creation after the Second World War, through its...

Empire explains why there are millions of Britons living worldwide.
Empire explains Brexit and the feeling that we are...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

Throughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together...

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property...

How does Britain get its food?
Why is our current system at breaking point?
How can we fix it before it is too late?

British...

A succinct, expert Pelican history of the most contentious issue of our time

After all the debates, manoeuvrings,...

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at...

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of...

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the...

Hazeley... , Morris...

This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the...

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place...

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.

However,...

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The...

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover...