Collection: History & military

Talking Classics : The Shock of the Old

Victory '45 : The End of the War in Eight Surrenders

Revolting : A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions

A Training School for Elephants

Eagle Days : Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

Athens and Sparta : The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece

The Book of Revelations : A History of the Secrets Women Keep and Tell from the 1950s to the Present Day

Allies at War : The Rivals Who Defeated Hitler

Carthage : A new history of an ancient empire

Sceptred Isle : A New History of the Fourteenth Century

Self-Help From the Middle Ages : A Journey Into the Medieval Mind

The Renoir Girls : A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal

Tank : The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable Men Behind Them

Stalin’s Apostles : The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

The British Imagination : A History of Ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II

Lido Land : How Britain Learned to Make a Splash

The Roman Empire : A History in 9 Chapters: a new accessible and entertaining history for anyone obsessed with the Roman Empire

The Writer and the Traitor : A thrilling history of the 20th century's most intriguing friendship - between novelist Graham Greene and spy Kim Philby

Upon A White Horse : A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4 Book of the Week

The Visionaries : The Making of the Post World War II Order in the West

Offa : King of the Mercians

Weimar : Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

The Black Death : A Global History

King's Mistress, Queen's Servant : The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard

The Lost Voices of Pompeii : The Final Day in Seven Lives

Things We Found in the Ground : A Metal-Detecting Journey Through Britain

Lest We Forget : 100 Stories of Love, Loss and Heroism

Sword : D-Day – Trial by Battle

Japan's War : Hirohito’s Holy War Against the West

The Edge of Revolution : The General Strike that Shook Britain