Historie

Anne Applebaum

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays…

Erik Larson

Michiko Kakutani

Edward W. Said

'Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of Edward Said's analytical prowess will not be disappointed . . . Those discovering Said for the first time will be profoundly impressed' Toni Morri…

Robert Fisk

Thant Myint-U

Mark Mazower

Margaret Macmillan

A JM Classics edition of the influential history of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, introduced by Max Hastings

James Cheshire

Tim Blanning

Fareed Zakaria

Steve Coll

The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations…

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they…

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…

David Grann

Ben Macintyre

John Kampfner

No other city has had so many faces and so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. The Berlin of the past 800 years has been both haven and hell. It is a…

John Kampfner

Boris Johnson

Amitav Ghosh

Simon Jenkins

Jack Fairweather

Katherine Howe

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth…