Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to 'impose democracy' on countries that failed to recognise the new order. Politicians foretold the universalisation of Western values as the final, enduring form of human society...

An epic account tracing the rise of the Mongol Empire.

Barbarossa is the story of the battle for the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of military history.

100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world.

The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

'Alluring, gripping, real: an astonishing insight into the lives of three queens' ALICE ROBERTS

'Takes us into the hearts and minds of three extraordinary women' AMANDA FOREMAN

'Conveys the vitality of the past as few books do. An enviable tour de force' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB

Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters...

The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyds acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England. &b>&/b>

The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd’s magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.