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...

The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might h...

Many books have been written about Second World War special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such ope...

The definitive translation of the seminal treatise on the code of the samurai. Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure,...

This illustrated series presents the uniforms and equipment of the United States Army from the nineteenth century to the present day. Each volume...

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclips...

In the years since 9/11 Special Forces of many nations have been in almost constant action in covert, high risk operations around the globe. These ...

J. P. CROSS has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal, being the only foreigner in the his...

The campaign fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine is often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet it is fascinating from ...

Marcellus' military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, ...

Within weeks of 9/11, United States Special Operations Forces were dropping into Afghanistan to lead the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Fo...

On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiti...

The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who ...

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 ...