History & Politics

In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts - East and West. The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a m...

Featuring more than 1,500 images that bring the story of the past to life through a detailed timeline, this visual reference helps children navigat...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of author...

Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscu...

Believed to have been first published more than two thousand years ago, The Art of War is the classic Chinese book of military strategy. It has n...

The Art of War is one of the most succesul treatises on warfare & military strategies of all time. Writtn by ancient Chinese genreal Sun Tzu in...

Written by the leading Danish authority on the period, this splendid work brings to life Nelson's historic victory immortalised by his so famousl...

By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. ...

On Mother's Day 1970, Leslie Sabo Jr.'s mother received a gift of orchids from her son, who only hours before had fallen in the jungles of Vietnam ...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

In the field of military history as in so many others, the Chinese have often been both admired and seen as something utterly mysterious and insc...

The most prestigious and influential book on strategy and dealing with conflict, beautifully translated for clear, accessible reading.In the wor...

The Battle of Maiwand was a key clash in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and one of the most serious defeats of the British Army during the `Great Game...

One of the bloodiest conflicts in military history, the Battle of the Somme raged from 1 July to 18 November 1916. It has come to signify for many ...

The Gallipoli campaign was in some ways the brainchild of First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, who saw an attack on the Dardanelles as a...

Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Pablo Escobar, Mad Frankie Fraser. Their exploits are legendary, ripped from bloody headlines spanning the globe and a ce...

Official U.S. edition with full-color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill...

Following a lull in the desert war which saw the Germans and British reinforce their armies, Rommel suddenly attacked British fortifications with a...

A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times Intricate...

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller`A fabulous story, superbly told ... cannot be bettered' Max Hastings`Some battles change nothing. Waterloo cha...

First published in 1948 as Commando Men- The Story Of A Royal Marine Commando in North-West Europe, the book tells the story of the men of General ...

In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the "immediate" award of the 1...

Imagined by an aristocrat in White's Club, London in 1925, a part-time squadron of wealthy young men with their own private aircraft was incorporat...

During the Second World War, 156 RAF men successfully escaped from German PoW camps in Western Europe. A further 1,975 men evaded capture after hav...