History: Specific Events & Topics

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...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us tog...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but un...

A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing Caitlin Moran Newman is a brilliant writer Observer A fr...

In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out wor...

This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the stor...

From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world...

The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetratin...

The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating e...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined...

'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA...

A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War...

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of ...

Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she becam...

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 ...

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* ...

Sarah Gristwood celebrates the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II and how her enduring popularity was tantamount to her many supporters. The twists and t...

In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the L...

This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at ...

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring chal...

'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw...

Unlock the secrets of the legendary weapons of the samuraiWhile the samurai is well known as the military nobility of medieval Japan, their range o...

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZ...