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The Shortest History of Europe

The Hurricane Girls - The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly

Jo Wheeler is a writer and radio producer who has written books with Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and worked with a 1950s policewoman to ...

Humans - A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f**k ups in human history In the seventy thousand years that modern hu...

Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Businessweek, Smithsonian, Men¿s Journal, and The At...

Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations. David Reich e...

Thomas Cromwell - A Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography...

A Short History of Europe - From Pericles to Putin

Simon Jenkins is author of the bestselling A Short History of England, A Short History of Europe, Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, En...

A History of the World in 21 Women - A Personal Selection

Jenni Murray gives the lie to Thomas Carlyle's infamous declaration that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men.' Wo...

Double Agent - My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA

Under the pseudonym Kevin Fulton, a one-time double agent within the IRA opens up about this experience.

Left Bank - Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged agains...

A short history of Austria-Hungary and Poland

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction

Nazi Germany may have only lasted for 12 years, but it has left a legacy that still echoes with us today. This book discusses the emergen...

The Border - The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics

A clear and concise history ... Ferriter's judicious book shows that Brexiters' recklessness ... is nothing new, and that it has always b...

The Boundless Sea - A Human History of the Oceans

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of...

Germania - A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

'A splendid offering' Financial Times 'An idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect' Sir Tom St...

A Short History of London - The Creation of a World Capital

Paperback editon of the concise history of London, which follows on from Ackroyd's "A Short History Of Europe" and "A Short History Of En...

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the imm...

Elizabethans

The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr

Learning from the Germans - Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world stru...

The Hungry Steppe - Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33. More than 1.5 million pe...

The Science of Demons - Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil

Examining individual authors, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight ag...

Sword and Scimitar - Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities

King and Emperor - A New Life of Charlemagne

A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... ...

Who Are China's Walking Dead?: A personal journey into the strange world of communist culture and officialdom

Who Are China's Walking Dead? Former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, alongside an army colonel, a judge, a diplomat...

Journey through a Tragicomic Century - The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner

Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction "Journey through a Tragicomic Century" is about the life of the forgotten writer...

Rediscovering the Great War - Archaeology and Enduring Legacies on the Soča and Eastern Fronts

This book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching...

The Song of Simon de Montfort - England's First Revolutionary

Heir to a great warrior, devoted husband and father, fearless crusader knight and charismatic leader, a man whose passion for good govern...

Finding Your Father's War - A Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II U.S. Army

A single-volume handbook for researching service in America's World War II Army.

Winston Churchill - A Life in the News

A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and novelty played into hi...

Rivers of Power - How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel Rivers, more than any...

Coffeeland - A History

*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize* 'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic 'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hu...

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants - Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or su...

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of Stat...

The Mediterranean in History

The only complete and up-to-date overview of Mediterranean history from 1000 to the end of the 20th century.

The Cairngorms - A Secret History

Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It look...

The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan and the Philippines for the year 1870

The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan and the Philippines for the year 1870 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original ...

Babyn Yar: Past, Present, Future - Past, Present, Future

Babyn Yar: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft fasst die Forschungs- und Gedenkbemühungen des Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center seit sein...

The Unsettling of Europe - The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020 A TIMES LITER...

Moving the Social 66/2021 - Journal of social history and the history of social movements. Unwelcome Participation: Ostracizing Public Protest in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Moving the Social - Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is a multi-disciplinary, international and peer-reviewe...

Dragon

Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago. 'Dragon', the first ...

Eat the Buddha - Life, Death and Resistance in a Tibetan Town

In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance, defining the country today. In Eat the Buddha...

The Imperial Nation - Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires

How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians vie...

A History of Solitude

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to s...

Voices of the Nakba - A Living History of Palestine

First-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the Nakba

1917 and the Consequences

The Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. Radical change in Russia triggered social rev...

Les Contes D'Hoffmann = Tales of Hoffmann: Opera in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue

Belarus - The Last European Dictatorship

"In 2020 Belarus made headlines around the world when protests erupted in the aftermath of a fraught presidential election. Andrew Wilson...

The Problems of Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about...

Mengele - Unmasking the "Angel of Death"

Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, ...

Figuring Out The Past - The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History

Time of the Magicians - Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy

AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose id...

A Short History of Russia

'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times 'An amazing achievement' Peter ...

Capitalism and Slavery

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire,...

Short History of War

Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and ...

Theory of the History Classroom

This volume proposes a theory of history education in formal classroom settings. Specifically, it aims to outline how the particular sett...

Letters to Thos. A. Morris

Letters to Thos. A. Morris is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature ...

Lyrical Poems

Lyrical Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different ...

Stowe - A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingham

Stowe - A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingh...

English Travellers and Italian Bringands: - A Narrative of Capture and Captivity, in Two Volumes, Vol. II

English Travellers and Italian Bringands: - A Narrative of Capture and Captivity, in Two Volumes, Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality r...

Napoleon and Bluecher

Napoleon and Bluecher is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on di...