History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters.The lives of…

Gripping storytelling allied with intimate, unsqueamish knowledge of Russian history - a special combination.' - AD Miller,…

'Whichever option I choose, men are going to die.' When the entire Soviet Union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating…

It's also a glorious read' - William Shawcross, Spectator_____________________________Written by the renowned royal…

She tells of her numerous run-ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasons…

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The incredible stories of 100 perfumes from a whole century of scents. Signature scents and now lost masterpieces; the…

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book''DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES''A big gold bar of…

The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and…

The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch told by the maker of ITV's upcoming documentary on Queen Elizabeth II's…

A Sunday Times bestseller - Five women.Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle and her…

When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in…

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth,…

In Keeper of Genesis, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work…

Part mystery thriller, part true adventure and part travel book, this gripping piece of historical research challenges…

Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by…

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around…

When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord…

Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB…

This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs:…

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the…

'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' Mike Leigh 'One…

Offers an in-depth examination of the creation of a British institution like no other - arguably the greatest sitcom of all…

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October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. Using a wealth of untapped archival material, he…

Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians.…

Veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew finally reveal the…

This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history. How William's…

The authors of this text show that the ancient Book of Enoch, rediscovered in the 18th century, describes how Uriel's…

Offers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a…

This is the extraordinary story of Knight and Lomas's fourteen year quest to uncover the secret teachings buried beneath…

Coal has transformed societies and shaped the fate of nations. The first half of the book is set in Britain and tells how…

Did the Trojan War really happen? The Trojan War may have been the inevitable consequence of expanding Greek maritime…

When Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. His death was a…

In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich…

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two,…

Gene Simmons has also acted in films and on television, has written and produced albums for other recording artists, has…

conquered Wales, extinguishing forever its native rulers, and constructed - at Conwy, Harlech, Beaumaris and Caernarfon -…

Challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers…

People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian…

Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel.…

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Tells the story of Gaius Julius Caesar's relentless rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68 BC. He comes…

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. For more than forty…

King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly, despicable and cruel. But…

This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon's…

For fifteen hundred King Arthur has remained a mystery. For the first time, King Arthur - The True Story discovers the…

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An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history: Joe Biden's decision to run for…

In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime…

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2014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history. But…

They had many legendary names - the Divine Pelasgians of Greece, the Luwians of Troy and western Anatolia, the Rephaim and…