Historie

Naughty Dog

Justin Marozzi

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, rich and controversial history. Unlike the notorious and shorter-lived Atlantic slave trade, its story is much less known. In contrast to American plantation…

Ron Chernow

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halley's Comet, the rambunctious Twain was an early teller of tall tales. He left his home in Missouri at an early age, piloted steamboats on the Mississippi…

James Cheshire

DK

Carl E. Schorske

A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time; a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern…

Hampton Sides

Dan Cruickshank

Tim Weiner

Katherine Howe

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth…

Volker Ullrich

Douglas Century

Simon Jenkins

Scott Anderson

From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller LAWRENCE IN ARABIA a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity…

Christopher Clark

Various

Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. With profiles of key people, movements, and events…

DK

Ian Kershaw

When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works…

David Abulafia

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity…

Nicholas Jubber

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a…

Christopher Clark

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering…

Brian C. Muraresku

Christopher Clark