General & World History

Yuval Noah Hararis bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a frac...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urg...

'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us de...

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman...

'Vital reading' STYLIST'...hooting with laughter - what a swashbuckler that Hannah Jewell is' MARINA HYDE'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to rea...

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the...

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...

The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the ...

Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World...

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had kn...

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...

Travel back in time with the latest instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series, in a brand new portable format.The Little Book of History chart...

Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades ...

Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries a...

This splendid and often moving work of history Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing ...

In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell abo...

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided ...

From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect usThe Sacred History i...

Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated si...

The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth cent...

Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat. New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of St...

Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells Americas greatest untold story: the United States rise to world dominance un...

London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment ...

'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating ...

'A companion to be cherished', 'judicious and authoritative', 'informative and entertaining', an 'invaluable work of reference' - these are just so...

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman...

From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling'...

From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the...

A humorous and informative guide to surviving historys most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.Histo...

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial h...

A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidence...

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets...

This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career....

'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly ac...

The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, politic...

Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the o...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of a...

The discovery of Richard III's skeleton has reignited interest in archaeology in the UK.