Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Parris... , Bryson...

Matthew Parris's Parting Shots is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis.

Up till 2006 a British Ambassador...

Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell...

'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic....

Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament

Over the last two...

John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of...

The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years....

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting,...

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality.

The regime controls the flow of information...

Hennessy... , Jinks...

'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about...

Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes

More people died in...

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America

Barack...

In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to...

An almighty storm hit Berlin in the last days of April 1945. Enveloped by the unstoppable force of East and West, explosive...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our...

London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down,...

You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story.

From its creation after the Second World War, through its...

Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop them

It's easy to overlook that most of the...

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

Throughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together...

How does Britain get its food?
Why is our current system at breaking point?
How can we fix it before it is too late?

British...

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of...

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.

However,...

'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'

Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire...

Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling The End of the Party lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office.

Through...

Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette...

Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a...

Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th...