History

A gripping history charting the flow of intelligence from the CIA to the president in the twentieth century

The love lives of famous Europeans, as war approaches - from the bestselling author of 1913

Napoleon was the colossus of his age. He rose to become one of Revolutionary France's most successful generals, before being crowned emperor in December 1804. This book tells the story of the Napoleonic Wars, bringing 30 items of facsimile memorabilia, which have been researched from museum collections ...

The first book to chart the hedonistic history of London's Piccadilly

Originally published: New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006.

A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power.

A jazz critic, an anarchist, a chemist, a cad... and the biggest drug bust in UK history

The Great War was the first truly global war - one in which the world suffered more than 37 million casualties.
On 28 June 1914, a Yugoslav nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, destroyed the already delicate political balance in Europe when he assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ...

Recounts the fascinating story of spies and spying from the cloak-and-dagger machinations of the Ancient Greeks and Romans to the high-tech surveillance operations of the post-9/11, post-truth world.

The creation, history and near destruction of Notre-Dame - and the reconstruction controversy

The untold story of Britain's role in the Israel-Palestine conflict

A portrait of Enlightenment science, religious identity and empire in the making of the modern Middle Eastern world

The poet of the medieval Muslim world who is the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the island of Sicily

Children of Beowulf, Warriors of God, Pioneers in Europe

Continues a series that has received good reviews. Fascinating discussion of plausible what if scenarios grounded in real history

The first comprehensive re-telling of Mary Channing's life and death since the sensationalised publication chronicling her criminality and dramatic demise appeared in print in 1706.

With contributions from political, social and literary historians based in Britain, Australia and the United States, this volume presents 11 essays on the Chartist movement.'

The events of Richard IIIs reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeares most performed, filmed and translated history play. This book tells the story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells us.

Describes the role and history of the goddess, the personification of Mother Earth, among the various peoples of the world, and shows some of the ways artists of different cultures have depicted her.

A striking narrative of the First World War by one of the greatest writers in the English language. 'The German strategy was that of a woodcutter who strikes first on one side of the trunk and then the other. But his method is useless unless each stroke of the axe cuts out a substantial wedge, and this the German blows had failed to achieve.'