History

Author: Marek Kohn, Cover: Softback, Pages: 352...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 320, Author: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 304, Author: Lee Jackson...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 320, Author: Victor Cha...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 464, Author: Richard Cockett...

Author: Ilan Pappe, Cover: Softback, Pages: 192...

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Author: Lesley Downer, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 288...

Sam Leith Hardback 592 pages Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond ...

Softback Volker Weidermann It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a cote...

Ned Boulting Paperback 288 pages The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923 he set abou...

Tom Holland Paperback 448 pages The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age...

Nadine Akkerman - Pete Langman Hardback 368 pages, 60 color illus. +1 map A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to cou...

Softback 292 pages When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday’s words suffice?‘We were so happy and didn’t know it…’A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a qu...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...

Mary Beard Paperback 336 pages What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the unco...

Timothy Garton Ash Paperback 384 pages Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton As...

Jo Teeuwisse Paperback Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sp...

Softback Mike Duncan Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on bo...

Rashid I. Khalidi Paperback / softback 336 pages, Maps and b&w photos The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of natio...

Irene Vallejo Softback 464 pages An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and readingLong before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile ...

James Vincent Paperback 432 pages A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space ...

Amy Stanley Paperback 352 pages Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a port...

Keiron Pim Hardback 544 pages The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brill...