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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES
A gripping new history of the making of England ...
The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to ...
"From the skies over war-torn Europe to the opulent halls of English nobility, Edward Bagot's journey is a riveting testament to courage, heritage, and ...
Wing Commander Vic Hodgkinson DFC served as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force throughout WWII. Starting in 1939, he was a founding member ...
A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it ...
A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign.
Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus ...
The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket.
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 ...
'Alice Hunt brilliantly reanimates this most extraordinary decade. It is a gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one of joy and hopeful ...
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished ...
Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares
A Penguin Classic
Three thousand years of encounters ...
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp ...
These women are twice convicted, and among them are no doubt some of the most depraved of their sex.
-- James Backhouse.
Hannah Rigby was a ...
The Royal Australian Air Force's Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was a critical asset in the fight against terrorism and insurgency in Afghanistan. From ...
The unprecedented scale and destruction of the First World War meant that hundreds of thousands of soldiers perished without being properly identified in death. Over ...