Historie

Ian Morris

How long will the power of the West last? In order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundred years? With flair and authority, historian and archaeologist…

Neil Price

Simon Jenkins

David Abulafia

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity…

David Abulafia

George Packer

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. Packer journeys through the lives of several Americans including a son of a tobacco farmer…

Jonn Elledge

Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE People have been drawing lines…

Laurence Rees

Drawing on new eyewitness testimony from the author s archive of which he spent 25 years meeting and interviewing survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. This is by far the clearest book ever written…

Thomas Harding

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and BLOOD ON THE PAGE, pre-order the gripping story of an unsolved triple-murder which took place against the extraordinary…

Erling Kagge

The Norwegian explorer, philosopher and acclaimed writer chronicles his historic 58-day journey to the North Pole on skis in this gripping and thought-provoking memoir that is also a profound meditation…

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…

Lawrence Freedman

Ben Macintyre

Erik Larson

The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the…

Clare Mulley

Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power…

Jonathan Kaufman

Tim Blanning

Aly Götz

Justin Marozzi

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, rich and controversial history. Unlike the notorious and shorter-lived Atlantic slave trade, its story is much less known. In contrast to American plantation…

Angela Y. Davis

John Hersey

"On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories…

Martyn Rady