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The revolutionary new understanding of how the gun trade facilitated the expansion of the British Empire and changed the course of world history. History teaches ...
Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic ...
A long overdue reassessment of the part Churchill played in WWII, and how his actions really affected those he led. Churchill has gone down in ...
'Marvellously engaging' The Times
'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily Telegraph
In the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic ...
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine
'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx ...
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of ...
The history and culture of Europe has been decisively shaped by the exploration and use of the seas surrounding Europe. This catalogue book reflects the ...
Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of ...
In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting ...
A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaffe. Now he offers an insider's look ...
Geography is getting stranger. Out there, fleets of new islands are under construction and micro-nations are struggling into the light. As new borders and boundaries ...
Originally published in the late 1940s, Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation ...
