History books

A short yet groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome through the eyes of the oft-forgotten people who made up the...  Read More >>

From prehistory to present times, Nottinghamshire has seen Romans, marauding Danes, barons, rebel armies, kings,...  Read More >>

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History documents, explores and interrogates the Irish Theatre that was prevalent...  Read More >>

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even...  Read More >>

The formation of the Burgundian Empire by the four Valois Dukes of Burgundy would not have happened without the...  Read More >>

This guide, How to Survive in Ration-Book Britain, will help the time-traveller who journeys back to mid-twentieth...  Read More >>

From clandestine operations with the French and Belgian resistance, through assisting evaders after the ill-fated...  Read More >>

The Germanic nations of northern Europe resisted the Romans, forcing them to confine their empire within the heavily...  Read More >>

In the late afternoon of 24 June 1944, eighteen aircraft from 617 Squadron, led to fame by Wing Commander Guy Gibson...  Read More >>

Much has been written about the Second World War and certainly about the campaigns in North Africa. While often...  Read More >>

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What do you do when your country becomes a repressive authoritarian state? 2014- Russia prepares to host the Winter...  Read More >>

A shocking and absorbing chronological account of pop music's complicated history with fascism and the imagery surrounding...  Read More >>

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933 to 1945 provides a year-by-year narrative, fully illustrated, of the road Adolf...  Read More >>

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This is a new, readable and more accurate translation of the saga formerly known asOrkneyinga saga.The introduction...  Read More >>

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Starting with licensed production of the early MiG-21, the People's Republic of China has developed the derivatives...  Read More >>

Reflecting on the final decades of socialism, eight individuals born in the former nation of Yugoslavia between...  Read More >>

How twentieth-century scientists used proxies to understand historic climates, shaping scientific analyses of the...  Read More >>

This is the astounding story of the six female aviators who battled to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic...  Read More >>