History

Ryan Gingeras Paperback 368 pages The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was b...

David Graeber Paperback 208 pages The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was...

Peter H. Wilson Paperback 976 pages Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the...

Dan Stone Paperback 464 pages An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generationThe Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and ...

Keren Blankfeld Paperback Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia's story began when they first locked eyes across the work floor. It was the start of a romance that could have unfolded anywhere if it were...

Sathnam Sanghera Paperback 449 pages 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational inf...

Dan Jones Hardback 240 pages Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, often cast aside and misunderstood in tales of mythology and folklore. ...

Christopher Wilson Paperback 272 pages It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Brothor Diggory's life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the ...

Anna Funder Hardback 464 pages Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she...

Brian Merchant Hardback 496 pages The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather ...

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...

Islam Issa Paperback A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian ...

Philippa Gregory Paperback Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or th...

What do nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, and drag queens in New York all have in common? This book is number one on their Christmas list....

Roberto Calasso Paperback 128 pages An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to s...

Robert Service Hardback 496 pages Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service,...

David Petraeus (Author) , Andrew Roberts (Author) Paperback 544 pages Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - coll...

Jane Draycott Paperback / softback 336 pages Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were ...

Harry Sidebottom Paperback 352 pages On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was...

Ulbe Bosma Hardback 464 pages, 13 photos, 9 illus. The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environment...

Feargal Cochrane Hardback 320 pages, 20 color illus. A lively and inviting history of Belfast-exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant t...

David M. Henkin Paperback / softback 288 pages, 8 b-w illus. An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scou...

Murray Pittock Paperback / softback 528 pages, 64 b-w illus. An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to...

Lee Jackson Hardback 288 pages, 24 b-w illus. The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years To...