Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war...

'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.'

Clear-eyed, witty and...

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for...

One of the oldest cities in Europe, Porto is recognised the world over for its wonderful Port wine. Rising from the steep banks...

Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is...

The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and...

In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who...

Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .

France is a country famous for...

Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer...

Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about...

France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to...

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway...

The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They...

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search...

This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning - in...

A celebration of Britain's most wild and wonderfully atmospheric places - its ruins, including castles, follies, abbeys and...

Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England.

Home to historically rich...

Robert Fisk’s bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and...

This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women and the failures of our criminal justice system to...

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany...

Journalist Sam Bright is a Northerner living in London. He is just one of the millions of people clinging on to the coattails of...

This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together,...

Singh... , Hussain...

A history of Nehru that dives deep into the debates of his era to understand his ideology – and that of his contemporaries and...

The untold story of a British institution.

Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating history of...

‘Herein lie the men of Raven Smith. Each of them has left a mark, a memory, a stain, whether they meant to or not. Some hit deep,...

Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain's...

Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms,...

To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now.

We...

Bestselling author Katrine Marcal reveals the shocking ways our deeply ingrained ideas about gender continue to hold us back....

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm

Throughout history, humans...