Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory...

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...

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...

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...

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the...

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...

History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940....

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

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French...

'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh...

Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.

The Playbook is an expose of the...

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states...

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the...

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.

We are now...

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

Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking...

The iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth century

C. L. R. James's...

Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and...

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...

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest...

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But...

Marx Karl, Engels...

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited...