History

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Throughout history, adventurers have always wondered what is beyond the next mountain, ocean, river... or even planet. Explorers head out to...

Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...

Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 332 In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...

Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown...

Author: Martin Kemp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the author's...

Author: Scott Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands...

Author: Angela Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown' Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated' The Sunday Times...

Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...

Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...

Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...

Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon:...

Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us...

Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...

Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...

Author: Lauren Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to...

Author: Duncan White (Harvard University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a...

Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...

Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...

Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story...

Author: Tony Perrottet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the...

Author: Michael Idov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside-and closely observing-the media...

Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...

Author: Nury Turkel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Shortlisted for the Moore...

Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...

Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...

Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...

Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it,...

Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...

Author: Steven W Hackel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of the Historical Society of Southern California's 2015 Neuerburg Award for the best book on Pre-Gold Rush California Finalist...

Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...

Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...

Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...

Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...

Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An explosive expose of Samsung that "reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption,...

Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...

Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...

Author: Meghan Daum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 With a new introduction. One of Flavorwire's 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time. Meghan Daum is one of the most...

Author: Douglas Brinkley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program,...

Author: Susan Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission:...

Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...

Author: Larry Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company...