European History

Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-...

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionOne of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II come...

Malta, then one of the easternmost bastions of Christendom, was attacked in 1565 by the Sultan of Turkey with 200 ships and 40,000 men. This book i...

*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched...

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the Pe...

Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary througho...

An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the Peopl...

Plt Off Oliver Ormrod, better known as 'Sonny' to his RAF compatriots due to his youthful appearance, was just four days past his twentieth birthda...

''An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader'' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the ...

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard C...

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION A SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER 'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily...

'A wickedly entertaining read' The TimesA Daily Mail Book of the WeekThe sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious famili...

An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...

'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the contin...

A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's ob...

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to a...

Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental mar...