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

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 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...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES ‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets – their story is the story of Britain.