History

With a foreword by the Rt Hon Sir John Major, The Queen: The Diamond Jubilee is a beautifully illustrated commemoration of the life and reign of Qu...

The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and ...

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what ...

The French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a struggle in which ordinary people fought for their liberty, despite terrible odd...

It took the Japanese fleet twenty-two days to sail from Japan to Pearl Harborin 1941, the same twenty-two days that witnessed the German assault on...

In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive...

1968: The Last Year of Steam is a photographic album in full colour, depicting this important year with month-by-month coverage of over thirty-five...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all time for hi...

Genocide is a phenomenon that continues to confound scholars, practitioners, and general readers. Notwithstanding the carnage of the twentieth cent...

Edmund Blunden (1896 - 1974) moved among the ghosts of the Great War every day of his long life, having survived the battles of Ypres and the Somme...

Marina Frolova-Walkers fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalins Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and compos...

The first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the postWorld War II American landsca...

This book aims to explain the reasons behind Russia's international conduct in the post-Soviet era, examining Russian foreign policy discourse with...

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug...

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitlers regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent Hist...