History

The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.�•Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfi...

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan from the Auschwitz museum in Germany. Fumiko Ishioka, ...

This is a book about a group of Belgrade's young idealists and their pirate radio station B92, who began with the naive desire to simply play music...

Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers....

A history of ancient Greece describing everyday life as well as some of the major battles and famous people.

Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. . . The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain....

A detailed narrative of the thirteen months leading to the independence of the Indian subcontinent in February 1948, centering on major and minor f...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¢ In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious que...

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expande...

Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to ...

For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che's right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cub...

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotlan...

The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of mi...

The memoirs of "Irish Times" journalist Nuala O'Faolain. The book traces her life from childhood in Dublin, through university, to her career in TV...

Despite his potential, extraordinary skating skills, and unmatched dedication and endurance, George Faulkner never made the Montreal Canadiens' ros...

In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that ...

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History's most unlikely frie...

Coulton's expedition into fourteenth-century England and the life of Chaucer, first published in 1908, remains an excellent resource for any reader...

From Jack Whyte, the master of the sweeping historical epic, comes the continuing story of two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire dest...

An intimate self-portrait by the notorious Cuban leader covers a wide range of topics, from his harsh early education and the failures of the revol...

Journal entries share the naturalist's memories of childhood and the Great Depression, descriptions of archaeological digs, and observations on nat...

Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic vi...

Winner of the National Book Award.