Bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the great superpower of Ancient Asia.

Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.

The incredible story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by ordinary men who ultimately did something extraordinary.

The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of Ottoman rule was of profound political significance. The Greek Revolution offers short essays detailing the activities, personalities, intellectual underpinnings, and global resonances of a pivotal episode in modern history.

A biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history, who just died in Moscow.

The second volume in a new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich.

A new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime: a twelve-year descent into barbarism, genocide and aggressive war that cost over 50 million lives.

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher - in ending the standoff that threatened the future of all humanity.

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher - in ending the standoff that threatened the future of all humanity

A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean's enigmatic heart

A fascinating and entertaining historical investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbours and why that led to independence.

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War.

First English-language book to cover in detail German capital ships of this era

A history of England's most infamous king, Richard III, the last of the Plantagenets. With a new introduction from bestselling author Dan Jones.

A compendium of historical facts and figures, perfect for dipping into, new in paperback

This is the extraordinary story of the British plot in the summer of 1918 to overthrow the Bolshevik government in Russia, murder the Bolshevik leaders, and install a new government in Moscow that would re-open the war against the Germans on the Eastern Front.