Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

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...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing...

A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history

Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century...

What's it like to fly faster than a bullet?
Could you really glimpse the edge of space?
Why will we never see Concorde's like...

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...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war.

It took a...

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...

This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the...

Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon...

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

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

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

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the...

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...

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .

This is the story of a home...

March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if...

From the great cities of Europe to the jungles of Burma, and from the deserts of North Africa to the remote islands of the South...

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from...

May 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found themselves, stunned, broken, beaten, their backs...

Enlightenment Britain was ablaze with ambition and energy. Great writers like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson,...

Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then...

An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of...

Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of...

A practical, inspiring roadmap for changing the conversation on social justice issues.

'Not all men'
'I don't see...

The radio war of 1939-45 is one of the great scientific battles in history.
This is the story of that war.

Relying on...

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000...