Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

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...

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,...

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

As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the...

In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple,...

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 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...

Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of...

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three...

Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of...

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...

The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II.

In 1941, a...

Unsolved Mysteries of World War II. From the Ghost Train and 'Tokyo Rose' to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom...

Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And...

After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end....

Butman... , Targett...

In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us...

The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – thought their tanks...

From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century...

Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men...