Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs...

Southern Afghanistan: reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company, 2 Yorks, during Operation Snakebite. The mission: to take the stronghold of Musa Qala, deep in hostile Taliban territory.

From the author of 'K19 - The Widowmaker', Peter Huchtausen brings more drama on the high seas as the world holds its breath.

It was the most spectacular display of brinkmanship in the...

This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life, including the songs that turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint. In...

A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. This shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of...

Beginning with the founding myths of Romulus and Remus and a succession of probably fictitious kings, Anthony Everitt charts the development of Rome from its origins as a small market town in the...

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka dive-bombers devastated Warsaw and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Žabiñski began to fight their...

This novel is a family saga in the grand tradition, a tale of brother against brother, cousin against cousin; of love, hate and intrigue; of women inescapably entangled in the fates of their men;...

Everyone thinks they know about the Princes in the Tower: it’s one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in British history. But the real story of the suspicious deaths of the young Edward V...