"Built by slave labour in the early years of the 18th century, Saint Petersburg was Peter the Great's so-called 'window on to Europe', a city that would outdo all of Europe in its splendour. But a window works both ways, and as bestselling historian Sinclair...
"What can photographs say about the unimaginable? in some smothering dreams takes our gaze to the First World War, where official photographer Henry Armytage Sanders created the most extensive visual record of New Zealanders on the Western Front. But rather...
"The Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and...
"For centuries, the Celtic peoples of Britain stood fast against invasion and oppression. Theirs is a fascinating and exciting story that includes the deeds of some of the most tenacious and heroic leaders in history - from Caratacus and Boudicca to William...
"The eighth century has long been a neglected backwater in English history: a shadowland between the death of Bede and the triumphs of Ælfred. But before the hegemony of Wessex, the kingdom of Mercia - spread across a broad swathe of central England - was the...
"Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, the Renaissance is so celebrated as a rebirth of knowledge, arts and culture that today's politicians and propagandists often invoke it as a golden age. In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed...
"From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns! This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against...
"A unique new window onto Tudor life, told through ordinary people's untimely deaths. How did ordinary people live in Tudor England? This unique history unearths the ways they died to find out. Uncovering thousands of coroners' reports, An Accidental History...
"In this brilliant and critically acclaimed debut book, Anirudh Kanisetti brings alive for the lay-reader the early medieval Deccan, from the sixth century CE to the twelfth century CE, in all its splendour and riotous glory. Kanisetti takes us back in time to...
"The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and...
"Ninette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and family friend to Colette. But when the Second World War took hold and the Nazis occupied Paris, the fall from grace was dramatic....
"In 1985, Betina Anton watched Brazilian authorities apprehend her kindergarten teacher for allegedly using false documents to bury in secrecy the remains of Josef Mengele, known worldwide for cruel human experiments and for sending thousands to the Auschwitz...
"As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, 'Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and--like the wiry grass--seem as difficult to weed out and discard.' But the true-life story of...
"In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture,...
"Northumbria was one of the great kingdoms of Britain in the Dark Ages, enduring longer than the Roman Empire. Yet it has been all but forgotten. This book puts Northumbria back in its rightful place, at the heart of British history. From the impregnable...
"On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near...
"In this urgent pamphlet, Andreas Malm argues that a true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire"--Publisher's description.
"Dunedin is an old city by New Zealand standards, with a prodigious and eclectic array of engineering and industrial heritage features still visible in the landscape. Some - including the rope walk and gasworks - are the last of their kind in New...
"From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality. Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California--bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and...
"What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old...
"It is 2007 and the rogue Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah is using Afghanistan as a base to mastermind bombings around the world. Special Forces must be sent to stop him. Using classified sources and his unique insight into the SAS, Andy McNab gives a...
"El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorian meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on the...
"In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end...
"Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained hated for it. In his continuing desire to separate out the facts from the fiction of history, Otto...
"In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California. As he surveys the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of Koreatown, the invasion of "man-eating" mountain lions, the movie Volcano,...
"At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon...
"The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the...
"This concise history tells India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day, with a new preface and postscript"--Publisher's description.
"Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal, an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a "Settler colonial state"...
"Gidon Lev is eighty-eight years old. He's been a dance teacher and a farmer. He loves soccer, his kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids, his beloved wife of forty years, Susan, who died at age sixty-nine, and his unexpected late-in-life partner, Julie, who he...
"Was Noah the first to find and settle this country? -The Patupaiarehe call him Ue-Nuku (the bow of Noah) and knew him as the 'rainbow god. - The ancient name for New Zealand was Nuku-Roa, i.e. the 'Long Land of Noah' or'Noah Long, Long ago. In fact New...
"Emotional Labour in Oral History critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher. Uniquely, this volume draws on oral historians' personal accounts of...
"Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarisation, and the rise of other great powers threaten to unravel today's world order. Many fear this would lead to global chaos. But the West has never had a...
"Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to...
"Two German defectors who were to serve British Intelligence from 1942 to 1945 were, in many ways, two of a kind. One was a Nazi, having served in the Waffen-SS and given the code name COLUMBINE as a double agent under the Double-Cross System, while the other...
"From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multifaceted history. Combining factual...
"In 1966, with the words 'Bombard the Headquarters!' Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he died ten years later, millions had perished, China's cultural heritage was...
"A riveting, poignant account of two young women the author's own mother-in-law, and her sister and their miraculous escape from the murderous authorities of Vichy France. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, Marion and Huguette Müller's family was torn...
"On 19 September 2023, war broke out once again in Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny breakaway state nestled in the mountains at the very edge of Europe. For three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, this battle-scarred geopolitical hotspot had been fought...
"Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine an "unprovoked attack." The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked:...
"For most of the first millennium until the early 10th century, Vietnam remained a province of Imperial China, with brief periods of independence. In 938, the country regained its sovereignty, but within a few decades, the Song dynasty invaded. From that time...
"In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea,...
"In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War, while three million civilians were killed by the...
"The Oxford History of Modern China is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising power in what promises to be the 'Chinese century'. Covering the period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations which comprise China's modern...
"Details General William T. Sherman's 1864 march through Atlanta to Savannah, highlighting its impact on the Civil War and the self-emancipation of enslaved people who joined his army, addressing the initial Reconstruction efforts and the challenges faced by...
"A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won't collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he'll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the...
"Five daring escapes carried out by the famous fighting force during WWII. From the infamous 1944 desert campaign to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains; from a perilous escape across Europe aided by Resistance networks to three Captains fleeing an...
"In the early 2000s, the BBC launched its biggest oral history project, recording the lives and experiences of the ordinary people who lived through World War II. It amounted to 47,000 testimonies and over 400 diaries and letters, all of which have remained...
"Outsiders have long viewed Scandinavia as special, starting with the ancient Greeks and their myths of ultima Thule, a place 'where the Sun goes to rest'. Today, we admire Scandinavia for its universal welfare, equality, peacefulness and untouched nature --...
"The first English-language monograph that covers the importance of Greenland during World War II. The wartime interest in Greenland was a direct result of its vital strategic position--if you wanted to predict the weather in Europe, you had to have men in...
"An elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and why. Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the...
"This is the third book of a trilogy that John Mclean has written about the beginnings of New Zealand the others being Voyages of the Pioneers to New Zealand 1839-85 and Sweat and Toil; the Building of New Zealand. Using quotes and recollections of the...
"A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. The story of Ælfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a...
"As the West struggles against attempts to destroy it from within and without, key lessons in resilience from its Jewish parent can enable both Christianity and civilization to survive. Western civilization is facing a critical moment. Foreign enemies sensing...
"We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the...
"In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, and democratic order over the age empires. Scorched Earth dispatches the myth of World War II as a 'good' war. Instead, it reveals the conflict as a massive battle...
"A groundbreaking account of the history of Palestine by one of the world's most eloquent scholars of the Middle East, featuring a new foreword by Saree Makdisi. This original and deeply provocative book was the fifirst to make Palestine the subject of a...
"The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of World War II, and highlights the crucial work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers which shortened the war by several years. But there was another code machine used by Hitler himself to...
"Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays. Drawing connections between Biblical promises and exploding...
"How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi mind,...
"London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in...
"The Unsought Farm is Monica Edwards' story of how she and her husband Bill bought Punchbowl Farm, just outside Thursley in Surrey, near to the Devil's Punchbowl. It is an absolutely fascinating book, with masses of black and white photographs, and really...
"The era of the Emperor Justinian (527-68) intersects the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of rampant Arab invasions in the seventh. Determined to reverse the losses Rome suffered in the...
"This is a gripping account of one of World War II's most crucial yet often overlooked campaigns. Acclaimed Eastern Front historian Prit Buttar meticulously details the massive Soviet offensive that shattered Nazi Germany's Army Group Centre, turning the tide...
"Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera presents a groundbreaking new exploration of African history and identity. He takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect...
"On February 25, 1941 Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, made his first approach to the Australian and New Zealand governments seeking their approval for the use of their troops in his Greek venture. While the New Zealand government was adamant...
"As the year 2023 came to an end, and wistfulness filled the air with hopes for the new tidings; the whole world was left startled with the unfolding of the largest humanitarian crisis of this century. While we lamented at the visuals of unimaginable...
"Into the Valley of Death brings to life the story behind Tennyson's immortal lines: "Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." In 1854, 670 British cavalrymen, following a disastrous command, charged into history's most celebrated - and tragic - act of...
"Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, among them Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael; and in the chair, legendary...
"In the 1880s, control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield into which Prime Minister Gladstone did not want to step - until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged in Khartoum, and the city became the focal point for war. It was the height of...
"The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major forces in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both...
"This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest “infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations” (History). In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region...
"Academy Award winner Oliver Stone interviews Vladimir Putin"--Publisher's description.
"Until Scandinavia converted to Christianity and came under the rule of powerful kings, the Vikings were a dominant force in the medieval world. Outfitted with wind-powered sailing ships, they left their mark, spreading terror across Europe, sacking cities,...
"Despite Hungary's German alliance, two years into World War II, Allied prisoners of war, French and Polish refugees, spies of every kind, and the city's large Jewish population lived freely and openly in Budapest. Using newly uncovered diaries and archives,...
"The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and...
"When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as...
"Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared...
"Marking the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known drew to a close after eight surrenders in Europe and Japan finally heralded...
"The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south--no less than Latin America's was...
"Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, Murray presents a compelling case that places the latest violence in its historical context. He takes readers on a harrowing journey through the aftermath of the 7 October 2023...
"California has long reigned as the land of plenty, a place where the sun always shines and opportunity beckons. Even prior to its statehood in 1850, it captured the world's imagination. We remember the Gold Rush era for bearded prospectors lured by riches; we...
"Sadako Teiko Okuda was living in Osaki-shimo, an island off the mainland of Japan, when the bomb hit Hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945. Even sixty kilometers from the city, it was clear something horrific had happened. News came that her niece and nephew...
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