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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Author: Stephen Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke,...
Orwell in Spain
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and...
The Italians
Author: John Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A deeply knowledgeable and enjoyable account of what makes the Italians tick Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy...
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Tyerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle...
Napoleon's Last Island
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy...
A History of Venice
Author: John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...
Selected Poems
Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The essential book for understanding the history of Britain's place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present...
Bel-ami
Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the...