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Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of...
The radio war of 1939-45 is one of the great scientific battles in history.
This is the story of that war.
Relying on...
Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.
The Playbook is an expose of the...
If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...
There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city...
Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But...
An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky's "40 Thieves" were chosen for their willingness to defy...
In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple,...
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman...
An impassioned and persuasive argument for the American colonies' independence from the British crown, Tom Painea€s pamphlet was...
When Victoria was born in 1819, no one expected her to become queen. But when William IV died in 1837 without a legitimate child...
This richly illustrated hardback chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, accompanied by full-colour...
Written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, these seven texts have inspired generals for millennia, both in China and the wider world....
This is the story of Messalina – third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman...
In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish...
The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an...
In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War - a multi-racial, multi-national...
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation...
When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in...
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three...
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of...
A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world
The seventeenth...
As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a...
A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing...
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory...
19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict...
Eric Vuillard's gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European...
The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II.
In 1941, a...
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a...
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