History

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war. 'Take My Grief Away' reveals twenty-four raw, heartbreaking first-person accounts from peop...

'Chronicles of the Third Reich' charts the rise and fall of Nazi power in a concise and compelling month-by-month narrative of the period 1933-45.

'This Time No Mistakes' is an urgent book about the state of Britain in the 2020s, from leading journalist and bestselling author Will Hutton. Rarely has a country seen as many interlinked crises as Britain is now enduring: a turbulent economy, rising living costs, an increasingly divided society...

In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the rump of a once flourishing community of over 150,000, dating back 2,600 years, has dwindled to single figures. For many, this tells the story of the timeless clash o...

Caught between two seas and two continents, with a contested past and an imperiled future, Istanbul represents the precipitous moment civilizations around the world are currently facing. 'To the City' seamlessly blends two narratives: the fears and hopes of the present-day inhabitants, and the st...

Former Tornado navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude.

From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in 'A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages', inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landma...

From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in 'A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages', inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landma...

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the space of just 49 days, Truss witnessed the death of the longest-reigning monarch, attempted to remould the economy, triggered a collapse in the value of Sterling and was forced on a series of embarrass...

'The Turning Tide' is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, travelogue and politics, Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints, invasion forces and furtive gun-runners, writers, musicians and fishermen...