Historie

Ilan Pappe

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a…

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race…

Mary Beard

Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire in this major non-fiction release for 2015. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from…

Christopher Clark

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering…

Howard Zinn

Martyn Rady

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator 'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph…

Tom Holland

The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched…

Adam Higginbotham

Yuval Noah Harari

Príbeh o tom, ako informačné siete budujú aj rúcajú náš svet.Za posledných 100 000 rokov sme my, druh Homo sapiens, nahromadili obrovskú moc. Ale napriek všetkým svojim objavom, vynálezom a víťazstvám…

Philippe Sands

In the heart of Santiago, the infamous 38 Londres Street becomes the haunting backdrop for a riveting tale that intertwines the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London, the post-war life of senior SS officer…

Serhii Plokhy

Ivan Mrázek

Precious stones are masterpieces of nature and their mysterious shimmer has fascinated man since time immemorial. This overview publication briefly conveys the history of precious stones, introduces…

Václav Smil

Alena Mizerová, Lea Novotná, Radka Vyskočilová…

A university without its own publishing house is like a cathedral without an organ: wild-growing and silent. Masaryk University has got its publishing house, which even ranks among the largest in Central…

Timothy Snyder

Subtitled, "Europe Between Hitler & Stalin". Looks at how, between them, Hitler and Stalin murdered 14 million people in the 'bloodlands' between Berlin and Moscow. This area is now Ukraine, Belarus…

Francis Fukuyama

Fukuyama's profound inquiry leads the reader to the question of whether humanity will eventually reach a stable state in which it is at last completely satisfied, or whether there is something about…

Kehinde Andrews

Ian Black

Peter H. Wilson

A complete history of the Holy Roman Empire, which spans ten centuries, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon. Conveys the Empire's unique nature, why it was so important…

Douglas Murray

“Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr's Dispatches . . . Frankly…

Noam Chomsky, C. J. Polychroniou

Gwen Strauss