Hans Peter Richter   From winner of Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Friedrich and for readers of Number the Stars  and If I Should Die Before I Wake...

Jonathan Schell Jonathan Schell’s extraordinary on-the-scene writing about Vietnam has stood the test of time in our continuing attempt to understand how and why the United States went to war–and...

Gideon Rachman The West’s domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of...

Christopher Phillips An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting...

Ann Hughes The causes of the English civil war have provoked fierce controversy amongst historians ever since the seventeenth century. The period is still one which matters to people, one...

Jack Fairweather Tony Blair always claimed that history would judge his decision to invade Iraq. This revelatory and at times jaw-dropping account of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals...

John Lukacs The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of the twentieth century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated...

Juliet Gardiner Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, to coincide with their major exhibition, and including an introduction by Jilly Cooper. From the First World War to the...

Toby Harnden January 1, 2011 by Quercus

James Hamilton-Paterson 1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also...

John Toland Adolf Hitler was, without doubt, an influential individual of the 20th century. His actions shaped the modern world, and his fearful legacy still influences the world in which...

Christopher Hill God's Englishman A biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New...