General & World History

The world waited anxiously for the other shoe to drop, according to this history of the fraught period between America's atomic bombing of Japan an...

Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, and boldly graph...

In Mirrors, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically...

The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed V...

The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, t...

An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history - from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politi...

From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled...

As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Noted down in historical documents, cop...

The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the ...

The vast majority of soldiers and sailors fighting in World War II did not engage the enemy directly. Indeed, for every infantryman actually fighti...

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training he was assigned to Officer Candida...

Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China''s history? Most people''s knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at bes...

For anyone seeking to know the when, where, why and who of any historical event this guide will have a concise answer. From the Trojan war to the A...

As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India''s independence. Prime Minister Churchil...

In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monaster...

No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organi...

Suitable for students of all ages. Seven chronological essays covering 1500 years of history. With over 175 pictures, illustrations and maps. A com...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the worlds leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-w...

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 ...

Journey into the heart of Europe, 1918 a world left ravaged by World War 1, and on the cusp of radical change. Daniel Schönpflug's A World on Edg...