Imperialism

In this vivid 50-year history of Germany from 1871-1918 - which inspired events that forever changed the European continent - is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War....

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

The Great Sea is above all the history of human interaction across a region that has brought together many of the great civilizations....

Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe)....

Professor Woods's book reveals facts that you won't be, or never were, taught in school....

Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye....

John Julius Norwich has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early 16th century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers....

If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late 20th century to today, that book would be The Craft of Intelligence....

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that the news media defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society....

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture....

A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea....

Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans....

The fourth and last volume in Churchill's famous account spans 1815 to 1901...

Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

Never is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding story....

France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....

At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart....