Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Agee James, Evans...

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in...

Kendi... , Blain...

Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading...

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...

This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal...

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

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin...

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

Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This...

Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural...

You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris,...

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...

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...

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

The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades
'The whole tale is one...

The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades

'There was magic...

The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades

'On a February day in...

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...