AS guides us through a period of vast public investment in housing, schools and hospitals while also giving an exemplary portrait of London's teeming political and social scene and those - l... read more
Explores the competing psychologies that underlay the political and cultural struggle between the US and the USSR, in particular the fear and paranoia that all parties - from JFK to the Russ... read more
A history of global Britain told through its development as a mercantile power. ES shows how these commercial men, originally dismissed in the C16th as 'mere merchants', rose to become argua... read more
From Longleat to Cliveden, Tinniswood explores the ways in which the raffish and anti-hierarchical mood of the 1960s embraced the idea of the country house.
A narrative account of the rise of the Asian city state by the FT's former Singapore correspondent, exploring both its extraordinary economic development and the authoritarian bent of its le... read more
Over 100,000 Jews were killed in the Ukraine during the pogroms of 1918-1921. JV draws on trial records and witness testimony to argue that this chilling violence was a harbinger of the Holo... read more
Narrates the experiences of ten different women during WW2. Whether flying Spitfires, working in the Cabinet Office or cracking codes at Bletchley Park, these women all played a vital role i... read more
The Sherwood Rangers - from their landing on Gold Beach on D-Day to their pivotal role in Operation Market Garden and their status as one of the first British armoured units to enter Nazi Ge... read more
Scholarly history of the Wannsee conference in 1942, when the Nazi leadership met at Heydrich's behest to discuss the 'final solution to the Jewish question'.
The head archivist of the Imperial War Museum has brought together a collection of first-hand accounts from soldiers, air marshals, ambulance drivers and nurses to illuminate key moments of ... read more
An exemplary work of historical scholarship which reconstructs the five days separating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war against the US.
A moving and unique coming-of-age diary written by Churchill's daughter Mary during WW2 which shows her father as PM, military leader and family man. Carefully edited by ES, Churchill's gran... read more
The eight days after Hitler's suicide and the precipitous collapse of the Third Reich, told from the perspective of ordinary German citizens coming to terms with the destruction of their cou... read more
Teaching at the Royal College of Art from 1948-1975, he had enormous influence on a generation of British artists. He was also a significant artist in his own right, best known for his vivid... read more
The Dutch historian and journalist on the first two decades of the C21st and the forces that have rocked the European project. How could the dream of unity, peace, prosperity and co-operatio... read more