History & Politics

Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Juda...

From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New...

An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious hero...

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The bat...

Who Was Alexander the Great? Full of adventure that will keep young children reading, Who Was Alexander the Great tells the story of the boy with ...

This title provides a complete introduction to the First World War for children, published in association with the Imperial War Museums. Four small...

Can the demise of a government 1,500 years ago have repercussions felt around the globe centuries later? If that government is the powerful Roman E...

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Tr...

Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a ...

In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twenti...

The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that ha...

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries ...

Silk RoadsFrom the author of the phenomenal bestselling The Silk Roads comes a spectacular illustrated retelling. Embark on an extraordinary journe...

Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - lege...

1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion ever staged in Operation Overlord. The Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, ope...

Then solve the mystery using codes hidden in the book and the spycraft materials provided in an envelope inside. Your mission: Find Victor Dowd's m...

Cambrai 1917 was the battle that sowed the seeds of future combined-arms tank and infantry warfare, while remaining a battle of singular drama in i...

The Battle of Loos saw a change in Allied strategy, which up until then had been a series of small-scale assaults that achieved little or no ground...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

On 18 June 1815 the armies Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, each of approximately equal strength, faced one another in southern Belgium to figh...

The first major encounter between the British Army and Zulu Kingdom—one of Britain's greatest military disasters Putting the reader at the forefron...

What happened and why at one of the most decisive World War II victories The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Wester...

When we think of Arnhem we think of a Bridge too Far and a sky full of parachutes dropping the Allies into the Netherlands.Beyond these images, thi...

In 1066 the most significant battle on English soil took place some 6 miles north-west of Hastings. A king would die on the battlefield and a new d...

The houses of Lancaster and York clashed in the Battle of Bosworth during the Wars of the Roses. It marked the beginning of the reign of the Tudors...

Passchendaele 1917 is the story of one of the most pitiless and iconic battles of the First World War, known today as Third Ypres. Fought over thre...

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