History

Founding Fathers: The Shaping of America tells the story of six formidable Americans - George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison - and how they persevered for 50 years of battle and bare-knuckle government to forge a nation. Known as the ...

An accessible introduction to an enigmatic country, covering all the key topics from the times of the legendary samurai to Japan's position as an industrialized post-war nation

The story of Britain's first youth counterculture

Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.

The true story behind the mysterious death of 'Buster' Crabb, an inspiration for James Bond, and subject of one of the most compelling mysteries of the Cold War

A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and collective response in the face of crisis.

The gripping autobiography of a man whose air force career firmly proved him to be 'One of the Few'

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

From the earliest cave paintings, man has created cards or directions methods to follow others or just for their own use. The history of cartography takes the reader on a brilliant journey where myths transformed into reality and transformed new discoveries into information that would affect governments ...

What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all.

The true story that inspired The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and helped seal the fate of The Third Reich. This is a graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign which effectively ...

The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. In this book, Michael Ashcroft tells the astonishing stories of some of its most courageous and ingenious figures, who have operated all over the world from the First World War to the present day.

Author is the world's leading collector of VCs; his trust owns 146.

D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and helped seal the fate of The Third Reich. This is a graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign that effectively ...

D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy, which lasted until the end of August, involved over a million men from the UK, America, Canada, France, Poland and Germany, and helped seal the fate of Hitlers Third Reich. This book contains ...

January 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition - and the clock is ticking down on all of it.

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 beautifully illustrated, full colour history of scrolls and their uses in medieval life.

Published for the first time as a Granta Books paperback: Barbara Ehrenreich's groundbreaking investigation into the roots of war, with a new introduction by the author.