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...

For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from...

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...

The sinking of the White Ship in 1120 is one of the greatest disasters England has ever suffered. In one catastrophic night, the...

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

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...

From the author of The perfect storm and War comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can...

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,...

Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, into...

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