Following on from Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history.

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

A narrative history of the Korean War by bestselling author Sir Max Hastings.

As seen on Channel 4's WWII Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails, this is the incredible story of four escape routes out of Nazi occupied Europe, of the Allied servicemen who used them, and of the men and women of the Resistance who risked their lives to create and run them.

An authoritative, original and exciting history of the French nation, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

An engaging popular history of the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the ‘Little Ice Age’.

The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.