History

Inside the Transformative Reign of Chicago's Richard M. Daley“You have to have passion. You have to have honesty in office. You have to love the pe...

Submarines, Missiles, the US Navy and the Royal NavyThe atom bombs dropped on Japan opened the door to the nuclear age. In an ambitious programme, ...

Who was St George and how did he become patron saint not only of England but in many European countries? Who was St George and how did he become pa...

8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World War IIThe updated paperback of the acclaimed first history of 8 June, 1982,...

Stories from the PeatlandsAn evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.'A heartwarming spectacle of desolation.' THE S...

The USAAF in the Italian CampaignFilled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF’s tactical and strategic campaigns in the...

The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over EnglandThe story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaff...

Japan 1944–45An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home I...

Community Formation and the Poetics of ResistanceWhat does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form a...

The Great Soviet OffensiveA fascinating history of the great summer offensive launched by the Red Army in 1944 which turned the tide of the war.A f...

In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designer Andrey Tupolev designed a series of advanced torpedo boats for the USSR. Superbly illustrated, this is thei...

The Stories Behind the Lines on Our MapsA fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the ...

A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stun...

America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to TodayAn incisive and illuminating history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutio...

Escaping the Chinese Trap at the Chosin ReservoirIt has become the stuff of legend and is brilliantly brought to life in this book through first-ha...

A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams'An extraordinary, necessary book' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland'[Jason Allen-Paisant] intimately ex...

The only exam-board approved book for the texts examined as part of OCR's GCSE in Latin for examination in 2027–2028.This is the OCR-endorsed editi...

Rise and Fall 1918-1933McDonough places particular focus on the parliamentary history of Weimar, arguing that it was the failure of parliamentary d...

A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern IrelandThe riveting story of how the death of a spy in the IRA led to the biggest murder...

The History and Mystery of Gems Across TimeDiscover a dazzling deep-dive into the history of the world through a totally new lens, as told by the V...

The War on Terror in American LifeA groundbreaking history of how the 'war on terror' changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the nat...

Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black FreedomErik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to global Black history and radi...

Soldier Stories From Gettysburg’s George Spangler FarmThe George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dyin...

Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-AndalusWinner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Winner of the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize The Wo...

The South's Long War on Black LiteracyThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever...

The only exam-board approved book for the texts examined as part of OCR's AS and A Level in Classical Greek for examinations in 2026–28.The only ex...

A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American RevolutionFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, ...

The History of a Dangerous Idea'Eye-opening, thought-provoking and deeply enjoyable, What is Free Speech? is a work of great profundity and brillia...

The American Origins of Russia's War against UkraineJonathan Haslam reveals how US foreign policy from Bush Sr. to Biden helped set the course for ...

Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of AmericaHow a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspir...

A People’s Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940–45A magisterial account of the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, and why its afters...

A Philosophical LifeA comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones prov...

The Untold Story of Wwii's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever

A story of the Sk_wx_wu´7mesh U´xwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future.One hundred years after Sk_wx_wu´7mesh (Squamish) leadership s...

The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World WarsA fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil...