A funny, bullshit-free and surprising history…

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An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it…

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The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new…

• Rok vydání 2024

A new edition of Joseph Coohill's bestselling history of Ireland…

A captivating re-examination of the Easter Rising, addressing the fundamental questions and myths surrounding Ireland's…

Acclaimed popular historian, Philip Matyszak takes readers back to the rise and fall of the world's first superpower.…

\nA rich, wide-ranging and accessible introduction to over 2,000 years of history\n…

An invitation to discover the two most enduring and exciting stories ever to have been told…

Contrary to what most of us believe, our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you…

The untold tale of the Brits who infiltrated the Nazi hierarchy…

A panoramic history of the roots of China and Mongolia's historic rivalry... and why it matters now.…

\nA tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of art\n…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nAn updated edition of this bestselling introduction to the conflict\n…

She was just fifteen when Hitler entered Poland. She survived four years of Nazi terror. Mary Berg's diary is the first…

All you need to know about WW1 from one of the world's foremost experts…

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Courage and betrayal in Occupied France, involving SOE, British Intelligence, the Gestapo and the French Resistance…

Meet 50 of the English capital's most eccentric, revolutionary, bloodthirsty, ingenious and generally extraordinary…

The Cold War ended twenty-five years ago, but tensions between Russia and the West are as bad as ever. What happened?…

See the world in a strand of hair...…

An accessible introduction to an enigmatic country, covering all the key topics from the times of the legendary samurai to…

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A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nWhat happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of…

\nThe extraordinary worlds created in our minds\n…

A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free…

• Rok vydání 2025

In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous…

He swore an oath to King and Empire... but they forgot him…

The critically acclaimed, radical new history of time before the Big Bang…

In sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary set of women created a unique culture of feminine power that saw them run the…

Fully updated: the new edition of this compelling history begins in ancient times, takes us through the Qaddafi era, the…

• Rok vydání 2015

Power-hungry seductress... religious revolutionary... innocent victim... traitor - who was the real Anne Boleyn?…

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A revised edition of this popular and brilliantly concise guide to Russia's turbulent history - from Peter the Great to…

A story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and…

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This clear and informative guide draws on the words spoken by the Buddha to convey the true nature of Buddhist wisdom.…

\nA lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome…

Who is to blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic State? The answer lies far closer to home than…

The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history.…

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\nThe bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty\n…

\nBuried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race\n…

\nThe forgotten story of Britain\'s own Hindenburg disaster.\n…

\nWhy do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon?\n…

\nThe poet of the medieval Muslim world who is the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the…

The first biography of one of Iran's most original socialist thinkers and activists…

\nA groundbreaking study of the Iranian People\'s Fada\'i Guerrillas, their ideology, actions and impact on the 1979…

\nA comprehensive, rigorous analysis of all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the…