History & Politics

Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now, ...

Why are we so fascinated by Ancient Egypt? Is it because Egyptian treasures are rich and colourful? Is it because pyramids were so big? Is it becau...

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021Goodreads Choice Awards 2021: Winner, Memoir & AutobiographyEmpire of Pain is the story of a dyna...

'A brilliant new book'   Daily Telegraph     'Well written . . . and often entertaining'   The Times     'A sparkling analysis'   Prospect     Whe...

The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about ...

In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitni...

In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the sto...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Tel...

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history.Novel ...

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest ga...

It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country...

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. H...

Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam RutherfordThe Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have bee...

The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning ...

For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the explosive story of how insiders believe a...

Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr's great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of t...

This second edition of Howard Zinn on War is a collection of twenty-six short writings chosen by the author to represent his thinking on a subject ...

Completing his acclaimed trilogy on the history of Israel, Leslie Stein brings readers right up to contemporary events in Israel Since the Six-Day ...

'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will a...

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot ta...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritar...

A second edition of Zinn's landmark writings on history brings together 27 short writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust, Marxism...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international best...

'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of ...