Historie

Philippe Sands

Iris Changová

This "New York Times" national bestseller recounts the forgotten story of the brutal massacre of 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese army. "Anyone interested in the relation between war, self…

Elie Wiesel

Wiesel's trilogy of Holocaust stories offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.

Kehinde Andrews

Simone Weil

Tim Weiner

Emma Baxter-Wright

James Cheshire

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Jonathan Kaufman

Adam Lebor

Philippe Sands

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism.…

Brian C. Muraresku

Lizzie Collingham

Rashid I. Khalidi

Laurence Rees

Drawing on new eyewitness testimony from the author s archive of which he spent 25 years meeting and interviewing survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. This is by far the clearest book ever written…

A. C. Grayling

Martyn Rady

Barbara Tuchmanová

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's…

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…

Helen Lewis

Irving Finkel

Dan Cruickshank

Peter Frankopan

*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work'…