History books

Within the depths of every heart resides a gentle, unspoken pain-a yearning that surpasses words, a craving for...  Read More >>

An eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes: here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant...  Read More >>

In autumn 1943, the Dodecanese in the eastern Aegean was the setting for a series of German air-sea landings, something...  Read More >>

While militaristic and patriotic organisations formed an important part of Edwardian political culture, 1918 often...  Read More >>

A comprehensive list of all the Luftwaffe personnel who achieved the status of Ace and who flew in the summer of...  Read More >>

Edinburgh is forever bound to The Royal Scots, the oldest regiment in the British Army and now part of The Royal...  Read More >>

New Labour, New Britain? reassesses Tony Blair's governments, offering a balanced view of their policies and impact....  Read More >>

This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up...  Read More >>

It is often forgotten that Britains struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and the extensive operations...  Read More >>

The Monument brings together for the first time the complete photographic series by Sibylle Bergemann documenting...  Read More >>

This is the first systematic theorization of digital modernity, arguing that the digital age cannot be understood...  Read More >>

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A gripping investigation into Houston's hidden execution history, tracing race, public memory, and the living witness...  Read More >>

Every family has a story, and this is the story of the last four generations of my family . . . So begins The Dorchesters-a...  Read More >>

Ukraine’s stubborn resistance to Russian invasion proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against...  Read More >>

The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706,...  Read More >>

Essays of the Early Mubarak Era is the third of four volumes in which Mahfouz’s non-fiction work is translated into...  Read More >>

Essays of His Later Years is the last of four volumes in which Mahfouz’s non-fiction is translated into English...  Read More >>

How Putin has plotted with mounting violence since 1999 to subdue the Ukrainians and how the population resisted...  Read More >>

How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent...  Read More >>

""Reports on fieldwork conducted from 1977 to 1987 in Field III at Tell Halif by the Lahav Research Project. Focuses...  Read More >>

Was Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that it wrought? Menzies...  Read More >>

This thoroughly-revised new edition provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of the structural and strategic...  Read More >>

Green Thinking seeks to “compost” the views of dead white men (Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Norman...  Read More >>

Uncovers how Mexican-American and Cuban-American writings during the US Civil War shaped Latinidad amid conflicts...  Read More >>