Simon Schama It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of...

Anthony Julius In a book that Harold Bloom, in The New York Times Book Review , called a "strong, somber book on an appalling subject," Anthony Julius offers a wide-ranging...

Calder Walton The gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain’s retreat from empire. Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming...

CA Bayly This volume traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Moghul dominion to the consolidation of Britain's empire in India following the...

Charles Spencer On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of...

Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge Gordon Brown's three years in power were among the most turbulent in Downing Street's post-war history. Brown at 10 tells the compelling story of his...

Thomas Pakenham In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10...

Noam Chomsky The U.S. government's war in Asia has been the longest and most painful involvement of U.S. military in modern warfare. For nearly a decade, Noam Chomsky urged the...

Eric Vuillard Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two....

Ralph Melnick As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know...

CV Wedgwood From Back Day by day, almost hour by hour, C.V. Wedgwood describes the hour uneasy years that were to explode into civil war--a devastation that cost King Charles...

Edward Hallett Carr “E. H. Carr’s History of Soviet Russia holds a unique position in the vast literature on Bolshevism and Soviet Russia. No other work on this subject comparable...