The ground-breaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history.

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.

A vivid, beautifully ilustrated account of the Netherlands’ rebellion against Spanish colonial rule in 1568.

Reveals how the ancient Maya have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years.

A history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later.

A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world

A luminous and original account of the Bathysphere expeditions: the first ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly terrain more than 3,000ft below sea level

Heinrich Himmler, one of the most infamous mass murderers of all time, was originially from a conservative and Catholic family in Bavaria. Later he would break away from the church.

Himmler and his SS are responsible for the murders of 6 million Jews. The Allied Forces knew more about this during the war than they care to admit, since the British had broken the SS-codes.

Himmler was heavily involved in the state-of-affairs of the Netherlands and Belgium. However, he clashed with NSB-collabora...