Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine.

A compendium of the defining events of world history, fully revised and updated with two additional days imperative to understanding the world that we live in today.

A fresh perspective on Ethiopian history, architecture and culture from ancient times to 1500.

Pieces together the rise, achievements, and failures of North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.

An immersive, beautifully illustrated journey through medieval manuscript production.

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: a fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers.

A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.

»Als kleines Mädchen wurde ich Zeugin davon, wie die Welt, die ich liebte, durch sinnlosen Hass zerstört wurde und verschwand – und mit ihr meine beste Freundin Anne.«

Als die fünfjährige Hannah Pick-Goslar 1933 mit ihrer Familie aus Nazi-Deutschland nach Amsterdam floh, freundete sie sich dort rasch mit einem lebenslustigen Mädchen namens Anne Frank an. Jahrelang waren die beiden unzertrennlich. Doch 1942 veränderte sich das Leben der zwei besten Freundinnen auf dramatische Weise. ...

Ascend to the stars via a famously dazzling 17th-century atlas of 29 double-folio celestial maps, created by a master cartographer and cosmologer. Representing thinkers from Ptolemy to Copernicus, the richly adorned skies, ornate borders and constellations in this gorgeous reprint revive history’s most breathtaking visions of the skies.

Contantinople, the capital, has a population (probably) of a million and a quarter of in-habitants, or about that of Philadelphia. Among the other important towns in European Turkey are Saloniki, an important shipping centre, with 105,000 inhabitants; Adrianople, which has had a large domestic traffic since the completion of the railway to Northern Europe.

IT is important for purposes of reference, if not directly interesting, to relate so much of Ottoman history as may be necessary for the ...