Collection: History & military

The Descent : Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin

Emperor of the Seas : Kublai Khan and the Making of China

Bloody Dangerous : Fifty missions over Germany: The last first-hand account from WW2

Europe : A New History

The Lives of the Caesars

A Rebel and a Traitor : A Fugitive, the Manhunt and the Birth of the IRA

Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand : An adventure in landscape and Italian memory

King of Kings : The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran

Rain of Ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

Norway's War : A People’s Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940–45

The World After Gaza

Mining Men : Britain’s Last Kings of the Coalface

The Great Resistance : The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas

Vikings : Culture of Discovery and Plunder

The House of War : The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate

The Sun Rising : James I and the Dawn of Great Britain

Scouse Republic : An Alternative History of Liverpool

Thomas More : A Life and Death in Tudor England

Rasputin : And the Downfall of the Romanovs

The Opium War : Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

Statecraft : The New Rules of Power in a Divided World

The Prosecutor : One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

A History of the World in Six Plagues : How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

Captain de Havilland's Moth : Tales of High Adventure from the Golden Age of Aviation

The First Fascist : The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Mores

Hotel Exile : Paris in the Shadow of War

The CIA Book Club : The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

The Mercian Chronicles : King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918

The Sound of Utopia : Musicians in the Time of Stalin

Hard Streets : Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London