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In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town ...
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was ...
'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true ...
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman ...
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united ...
Now a major motion picture starring Dame Judi Dench, Ali Fazal and Eddie Izzard, directed by Stephen Frears. 'A tale of Empire and intrigue brought ...
The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific ...
The first history for a general audience of one of Asia's most fascinating and complex countries
As more and more visitors come to Vietnam ...
Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing ...
An epic work of Russian history from a major new talent
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of ...
From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed ...
How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the ...
For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that ...
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But ...
