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A brilliant exploration of how our understanding of the past was transformed between the French...

Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand...

The Sunday Times no.1 bestseller on the incredible true story of WW2's most infamous Nazi...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "As exciting as any...

Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued...

The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of...

"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED...

Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America A Penguin Classic Chilling...

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led...

Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris...

The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as...

A uniquely illustrated guide to the Second World War with more than 100 detailed maps...

Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion...

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the...

With the Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom itself a...

China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 'A brilliantly original book' Financial Times 'One of the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'Hypnotic, shocking and...

A riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity in that...

There is a little Neanderthal in all of us. Although they have been extinct for...

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature,...

For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist...

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world...

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which...

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history...

'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent...

A new edition of the definitive history of revolutionary Iran, essential for understanding the country...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year...