History

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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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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Empires of Early Latin America

From about the third century AD to the sixteenth, when the Europeans arrived and native American civilization ... more
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Ancient History - browse category

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The Rosetta Stone

Dominique Valbelle
Valbelle captures the sheer excitement of the quest to read Egyptian hieroglyphics, offering many sharp insights ... more
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Empires of the Ancient Near East

This four-volume set contains some of the very best historical writing on the subject of pre-Hellenic empires; The ... more
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British & Irish History - browse category

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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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The Wooden World

N. A. M. Rodger
In this ground-breaking social history, Nicholas Rodger explodes the Victorian myth of the Georgian Navy as a ... more
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Medieval & Renaissance History - browse category

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The Vikings

Gwyn Jones
From 780 to 1070 the Vikings founded an empire that spread from Arabia to Newfoundland. Gwyn Jones’s admirable ... 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 Long Weekend

Robert Graves and Alan Hodge
Through the 'roaring twenties', the Wall Street crash, the abdication of Edward VIII and the rise of fascism, The ... more
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SOE

M. R. D. Foot
SOE tells the thrilling history of the Special Operations Executive, the top secret agency formed in July 1940 to ... more
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The Origins of the Second World War

A. J. P. Taylor
Both riveting and thought-provoking, this classic work by one of our most popular historians remains as influential ... 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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