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Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year
From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of the critical campaign that became a vital precursor to D-Day. 'James...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only book of its kind on this battle. 'James Holland is a...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the Allies obliterated the German city of Dresden. Bombs weighing over 1,000...
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital
Following his bestselling short histories of England and Europe comes the final in the trilogy- LONDON LONDON- a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION
The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of...
The Trouble With Being Born
Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback 'Insistently asks the question- What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In...
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
A haunting history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in literature On 26 April 1986 the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occured in Chernobyl...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst...
Auschwitz: A History
A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past What can...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century,...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and their role in Europe's 19th-century cultural Renaissance The Europeans is a...
Ten Days That Shook the World
The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A...
Homage to Catalonia
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell...
Somme: Into the Breach
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material on the soldiers' experiences No conflict better encapsulates all that went...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in
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...
The Secret History
This edition contains a revision of the existing translation, revision of chronology and genealogy, and a new introduction of 4-6000 words, new notes and a new selection of further reading...
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
Sallust (86-c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His...
On Sparta
A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society. Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise...
The Conquest of Gaul
Penguin Classics relaunch Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his...
The History of Alexander
A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt,...
The Campaigns of Alexander
Penguin Classics relaunch. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most reliable we have. Arrian's own experience as...
The Makers of Rome
An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...
Bloodlands: THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe
A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians were murdered during the years 1933-1944 Under Hitler and Stalin the...
London
A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Find out the truth about Henry VIII's
Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book reveals a Tudor England where personal needs and private emotion could,...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great...
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most revolutionary and popular work, EMPIRE is a major reinterpretation of the...
The Russian Revolution, 1917
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London at War
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The Peloponnesian War
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Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Royal Hospital Chelsea: A Year in Pictures
***SPECIAL PRICE down from $90.00 while stocks last*** Founded by Charles II 'for the succour and relief of veterans broken by age and war', designed by Sir Christopher Wren and...
Guide to British Military History: The Subject and the Sources
What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and was used to support...
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For B
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The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020
Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49
'I've met such interesting people, and always heard unbelievable stories about people's lives. If I could put all in written language and sequence, I could write books, I'm sure.' -...
Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El
A "rollicking," "vividly re-created," and "enticing romp" that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a...