\nComplete with illustrations, \'Assholes\' by Twitter legend James Felton presents to you the worst people who\'ve walked…

The fascinating and heartwarming true story of two young children evacuated from Newcastle to the remote Lake District…

The true story of Florence Nightingale's life, focusing on her real legacy: how she put a sanitary disaster in her wartime…

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An alternative to the Blue Plaque Guide that drags the scheme into the twenty-first century by showing where notable women…

• Rok vydání 1941

Renowned military historian Dr Robert Lyman sheds new light on the inner workings of Churchill\'s war cabinet, its…

The rise and fall of Roman Britain, how they lived and what they left behind.…

A groundbreaking look at life as a conscript during Britain's postwar National Service, as told by the men who served.…

Revelatory account of the man and the legend…

The question 'what if?' has always fascinated historians. Richard J. Evans imagines what could have been, and how alternate…

* 'I devoured this in a few hours - a powerful book of heartbreaking yet flamboyant reportage from a forgotten hell' Simon…

An entertaining tour of the wilder shores of the British legal system…

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A superbly concise and clear, single-volume account of the English Civil Wars.…

\nA concise complete history of British monarchy, from its pre-Roman origins to the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II.\n…

The extraordinary story of John Kirk, the Scottish botanist who single-handedly ended the East African slave trade.…

The remarkable life of Colonel Edward Despard, comrade-in-arms of Nelson and a man who championed the rights of freed…

An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians.…

• Rok vydání 2018

Short, snappy and inspiring, these mini biographies celebrate women who headed out into the world determined to make a…

Primo Levi's devastating and classic account of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust.…

\nA gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain\'s bleakest hour, by the…

\nA brilliantly concise history of London, with a distinctive perspective focusing on the city in its national and, more…

* An accessible, involving and moving account of the Balkan war criminals…

* A fascinating study of the spectacular explots if robbers and outlaws from Robin Hood to Jesse James.…

Warlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian Renaissance…

* Dazzling biograpy of James Dean (1931-1955), a movie actor who has become an icon.…

From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age…

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• Rok vydání 1988

Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by…

The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism…

* The definitive biography of one of rock's most extraordinary legends…

'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nWith a foreword by William Boyd, Checkpoint Charlie is a vivid and poignant exploration of the history surrounding the…

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\nThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than…

\nAn insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawm\'s writing on the subject of nationalism.\n…

\nA highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed it\n…

A great war has raged for years between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, the realm of the witches-until the…

* The definitive history of the SS by an acclaimed expert -- out now in paperback…

*A great historian tells the inside story of how history is recorded.…

'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.…

An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Venice in the voices of both residents and visitors through…

A fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The…

A raw and gripping account of the Second World War and the men and the Machines who beat Hitler…

* Fresh, funny and impeccably researched, UNDERGROUND LONDON is 'alternative' history at its best - an illuminating glimpse…

A brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history: The Tudors and their Dynasty.…

\nThe biography of David Stirling, founder of the SAS.\n…

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In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the…

This Dark Business tells the riveting story of the British government\'s determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any…