Ronald Wright Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five...

Dominic Sandbrook Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture...

Erik J Zurcher This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins...

Edward Hallett Carr “Every historian, every economist, every Bolshevik even, owes Mr. Carr a debt of gratitude too deep to be formulated.” ―A.J.P. Taylor The second volume discusses the regime’s...

Ed West 'Insightful, poignant and at times hilarious' The TimesExploring why conservatives have lost almost every political argument since 1945, Ed West looks at this endless litany of failure from...

Philippe Sands   A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family historyWhen he receives an...

Michael Dobbs October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer...

Simon Sebag Montefiore This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In...

Jonathan Sumption This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars...

Anthony Read and David Fisher At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the peoples of India. Throughout the world, the end of the colonial era was...

Jonathan Dimbleby A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and...

Anthony Summers Conspiracy (on the John F. Kennedy assassination, '80, reissued as Not in Your Lifetime, '98), "Deserves to be read & taken seriously by all those who care about...