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The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At...
In rich slices of Italian life, ‘Delizia!’ shows how violence and intrigue, as well as taste and creativity, went to make the world’s favourite cuisine. With its mix of vivid stor...
Whose responsibility is it to make sure there is something to eat on every table? To make sure that children get milk and cereal, eggs and toast to keep hunger at bay? To feed key workers, whether ...
‘Apache Dawn’ follows the fortunes of one flight of Army Air Corps Apache attack helicopters in operation in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, in the spring and summer of 2007. It t...
In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, t...
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and?The Madman’s Library?(Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year) comes a magnificent new illustrated w...
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation’s ...
Here is an authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast...
From the famous quote ‘Let them eat cake’ – mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette – to the apocryphal horns that adorned Viking helmets, fake history continues to shape ...
For longer than recorded history there have been tales of spirits and of places where our hackles rise and our skin turns cold. Bestselling historian Neil Oliver travels the British Isles on a deli...
Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wond...
The lives and achievements of eight women writers – a startling and unconventional history of literature
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As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation’s stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense ...
In 1944, Helen Duncan was charged with witchcraft under the 1735 Witchcraft Act and was jailed for the duration of World War II. ‘Hellish Nell’ was first published in 2001 to widespread...
Born between 1885 and 1891, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel all participated in the First World War and, like millions of others, were so affected by their wartime experiences th...
From Napoleon’s penis to Van Gogh’s ear, from Marie Antoinette’s teeth to Marie Curie’s bone marrow, this book brings together the remarkable stories of body parts that have...
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis for...
In Turning Points, seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards explores the most consequential events in modern British history.
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Join Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn’t just another history book – there’s a catch! From Stonehenge and Boudicca to Megxit and Br...
A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened.
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This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean’s islands and Western control or influence over the its islands ...
Putting the Women Back into Roman History
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Take a step through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whitene...
Follow Alan Titchmarsh into Chatsworth’s irresistible world of visionaries, pioneers, heroes, villains and English eccentrics, and celebrate the men and women who have shaped the history of t...
On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine’s writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their country. Thi...