Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Discover the story of the world's deadliest war.

Combining expert historical insight with accounts of combatants and...

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

What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly...

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the...

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.

Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became...

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

In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the...

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...

In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity -...

According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many...

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...

The definitive history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants.
A work of unrivalled scale and...

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

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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...