History

Magnificent [and] wondrous. The Spectator Rich and illuminating. Literary Review Phenomenally accurate. History Today Stunning. The Morning Star ...

Enemy Sighted is the story of the world's first integrated air defence system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command's ...

Get ready to meet the goddesses, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind and Pandoras Jar, Natalie Haynes.These are the stories of ...

A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engro...

Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Grazianos intriguing book fuses t...

**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...

The work of a lifetime, a forensic, fair-minded examination of the HusseinMcMahon correspondence that exposes how the British government broke its ...

Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and ...

An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 Jan...

'A great achievement' Timothy Garton Ash Bloodshed. Invasions. Nationalist fervor. In this classic and celebrated history of the Balkans, Misha Gl...

Hope and Glory recreates the extraordinary era of Thatcherite Britain with the dramatic tension of a novel, revealing it as a critical moment in ru...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activis...

We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people s...

A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclai...

Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in...

A dramatic portrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow, author of ...

In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses...

Throughout its history the Byzantine empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders-the Hunnic hordes of Attila, the Arab armies of I...

On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie o...

A monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint The TimesMahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own ti...