Historie

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…

Ilan Pappe

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…

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…

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…

Stephen Greenblatt

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of…

Solomon Northup

A slave narrative, new to "Classics".

Naughty Dog

Max Hastings

Matthew Griffin, John Howard Griffin

Jack Hartnell

Peter Frankopan

A major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging East, as well as a rediscovery of the seductive cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, Isfahan and…

Kehinde Andrews

Norman Ohler

An account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops. In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler shows how…

Rashid I. Khalidi

Sojourner Truth

David Talbot

Now in paperback, this is a biography of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA, who manipulated presidents, protected German war criminals and colluded with the Mafiosi.

A. C. Grayling

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America&rsquo,s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil…

Elie Wiesel

Wiesel's trilogy of Holocaust stories offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.

Matt Forbeck

Philippe Sands

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism.…