History: Specific Events & Topics

Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration C...

'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him am...

The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER  *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great ...

'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW ...

Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER  *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAV...

  This stunning paperback box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collinss internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy...

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...

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical politi...

Churchill''s War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it...

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...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in...

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly co...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. The creatures teeth were buried in the gunwale, and it lif...

The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz now a major TV series on SkyCilka's Journey is a powerful testament to the triump...

Joan Didions hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ...

The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp. The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as...

A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million pe...

Incredibly evocative and compelling. - The Washington PostThe most moving and chilling oral history you will read. - The TimesAstonishing book abou...

An indispensable guide to understanding the IsraelPalestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most ori...