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President Bill Clinton

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…

Inazo Nitobe

Lucy Inglis

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…

Robert Service

Antony Beevor

A brilliant reconstruction of the Third Reich's final collapse, and the millions of people caught up in The Red Army's brutal desire to avenge Nazi atrocities, now published in B format paperback for…

Sinclair McKay

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre…

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…

Tim Blanning

Maureen Callahan

The No1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024''A searing exposé' Glamour'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power'…

Various

Greg Grandin

Tim Bouverie

Ruby Tandoh

Ron Chernow

The renowned author of "Titan," whom the "New York Times" has called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," vividly recreates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's…

Ron Chernow

Clare Mulley

Ben Macintyre

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of illiberal democracy two decades ago. Now comes Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present. A decade in the making, the book is based…

Erica Benner

'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian 'Enjoyable vitality' The Times 'Highly stimulating . . . wonderfully readable . . . her analysis of democracy's…

Mary Wollstonecraft