Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome....

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

The Story of Britain during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively...

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...

When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a...

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...

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a...

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

One hundred and ninety million years ago,...

From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops...

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...

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...