The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Category: History
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 by Halik Kochanski
Category: History
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn EuropeAcross the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were within tight limits allowed to run themselves. Others - such as France - were constrained not only by ...Show more
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
Category: History
The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell. The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britai ...Show more
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden
Category: History
A landmark study of ancient Greek and Roman cults, from the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis to the cults of Dionysus and Mithras. Mystery cults are one of the most intriguing areas of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis, participants dramatically re-enacted the story of Demet ...Show more
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
Category: History
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that grabs from the get-go - the moments in which the world teetered on the brink of total annihilation come alive as they would if this were the very best fiction' Justin Webb, Mail ...Show more
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
Category: History
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earl ...Show more
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
Category: History
An excitingly revisionist history of bibliophilia, from the celebrated author of This is Shakespeare 'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The ...Show more
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Catrine Jarman
Category: History
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past. In 1642, William Waller and his Parliamen ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
Category: History
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians