Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

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In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn...

From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great...

A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history.

Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire field, an...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.

How did the descendants of...

We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the US President. Discredited conspiracy...

They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a...

London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and...

This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier...

A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.
Operation Chastise was one of...

A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and...

In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In...

A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul...

‘By the people, for the people’
‘I have the heart and stomach of a king’
‘We shall never surrender’

The right words at the...

Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of...

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
In January 1649, King Charles I was...

Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It...

Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It...

Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the...

The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this 'African El Dorado' cost the...

'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent

This gripping...

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its...

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife...

In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally...

From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to test the air, to brave generals floating over enemy lines to watch troop...

In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics...

The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water – the Atlantic.

One hundred and ninety million years ago,...

A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family...

From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies,...

Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic...

The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important...