History

From Herodotus's account of the Greco-Persian wars to eyewitness accounts of the Bolshevik revolution, whichever period or region interests you, there is a history book here to absorb and fascinate.

American History - browse category

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George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis
George Washington, commander-in-chief of the army and America's first president, remains the most celebrated figure ... more
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North American Indians

George Catlin
George Catlin's pictorial record of Indian peoples is one of the wonders of 19th-century art, while his account of ... more
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Ancient History - browse category

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Empires of Early Latin America

From about the third century AD to the sixteenth, when the Europeans arrived and native American civilisation ... more
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The Art of War

Sun- tzu
The most famous military treatise of all time, Sun-tzu’s collection of precepts on strategic warfare has yet ... more
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British & Irish History - browse category

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Great Tales from English History

Robert Lacey
Experience the drama of English history through the great personalities, battles, discoveries, dramas and tragedies ... more
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The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses

Richard Barber (Editor)
This remarkable correspondence of more than 1,000 letters, written between 1420 and 1500 and spanning three ... more
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Medieval & Renaissance History - browse category

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Chronicles of the Dark Ages

Richard Barber
Uncover the dramatic story of the Anglo–Saxons through their own words in this newly commissioned collection ... more
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Inventions of the Middle Ages

Chiara Frugoni
The middle ages have often been depicted as a period in which life had few comforts. Nonsense, says the great ... more
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Military History - browse category

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The Art of War

Sun- tzu
The most famous military treatise of all time, Sun-tzu’s collection of precepts on strategic warfare has yet ... more
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The Campaigns of Napoleon

David G. Chandler
This best-selling Folio Society edition of David Chandler’s epic military history charts Napoleon’s remarkable ... more
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World History - browse category

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A History of the Arab Peoples

Albert Hourani
Eminent historian Albert Hourani distils a lifetime of learning into his remarkable history of the Arab peoples, ... more
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The Somme: An Eyewitness History

Edited and introduced by Robert T. Foley and Helen McCartney
July 1, 1916, 7.30 am. An eerie silence hung over the battlefield, suddenly shattered by the blowing of whistles ... more
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