Keith Lowe’s Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers….
‘Wry, readable and often astonishing… A provocative and absorbing history of the United States’ New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture…
The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly…
The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived. From the very beginning, Caesar’s story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing…
‘Extraordinary…serious naval history and a detective story, told with passion.’ The Times ‘Vividly detailed…compelling yet comprehensive.’ Los Angeles Times ‘Simply outstanding.’ Booklist (starred review) ‘Gripping… This yarn has it all.’ USA Today The sinking of…
Mary Beard is one of the world’s best-known classicists – a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of…
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but…
In 1204, brothers Alexios and David Komnenos became the unwitting founders of the Empire of Trebizond, a successor state to the Byzantine Empire that emerged after Crusaders sacked Constantinople. Trebizond, which stretched along the coast…
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome’s monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited…
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare’s Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare’s history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare – when the crown was…
It was Hitler’s boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has…
A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history’s most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe’s famous play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of…
*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* ‘THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ’ JOHN LE CARRE A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by…
In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen SS division…
Stained glass has been one of the chief glories of Britain’s churches since Norman times. Stained glass windows developed through the middle ages, as new techniques were introduced, and the art of storytelling in glass…
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS ‘Impeccably researched, superbly told – by far the best book on the SAS in World War II’…
‘An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner … Schiff’s writing is to die for’ THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when…
Her beauty saved her life – and condemned her. In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful…
Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis’ extermination…
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US…
