History

The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. El Alamein saw two of the grea...

As the Second World War drew to a close, the United States launched two air attacks that would secure victory and peace, but at a terrible cost. Th...

In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. Its very unfamil...

The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew fr...

Dorothy OGrady is uniquely placed in the annals of espionage. She was the first Briton condemned to death under the Treachery Act of 1940 after she...

The Battle for Berlin was the final struggle of World War II in the European theatre, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devast...

'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlbor...

See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it as well as those who fought against it in this exploratio...

John Fitzgerald Jack Kennedy, widely known simply as JFK , served as president of the United States 1961 until his death in 1963. To this day, 5...

Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.Enquiring History: It ma...

When the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in E...

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Ren...

Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa - it is complex, an acquired taste and reckoned to be rather unhealthy. Small chop is the addition of i...

War and Collapse is the third volume in a series that covers the last years of the Ottoman Empire. It stems from a three-day international conferen...

Lincolns Selected Writings includes letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses and more, accompanied by annotations, ...

The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar wor...

During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen - and state-building project...

When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a s...

Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives,...

In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. M...

Iain McCalmans brilliant history of the Great Barrier Reef, told in 12 extraordinary tales, charts its shifting status from labyrinth of terror to ...

Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical c...

Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing torp...

The availability of inexpensive steel, so crucial to the United States' emergence as a leading industrial power in the late nineteenth century, ...

This collection of case histories examines hundreds of trials and death sentences carried out by the law of the 'Wild West'. The legal executions, ...

By 1871, the popularity of baseball had spread so thoroughly across America that one writer observed, It is as much our national game as cricket...

The final offensive, an insurgent campaign fought after El Salvador's coup of 1979, clearly demonstrated the strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncrasi...

While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried hi...

Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.S. Marine experience at war in Vietnam, this memoir recounts the experiences of a young officer in a serie...

This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times...

Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, bu...

'Memories After My Death' is the story of Tommy Lapid, a well-loved and controversial Israeli figure who saw the development of the country from al...