(Hardback)

A portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite and the designer and executor of the Holocaust, featuring in-depth interviews with those who knew him best.

(Paperback, New edition)

Demonstrates the relationship between money, people and power in both Western and Eastern culture over the centuries. The author reiterates that many of the trends that have been regarded as distinctively new in the past decades have parallels in earlier centuries.

(Hardback)

We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armour and the idealised noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, you can find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, and how they worked.

(Paperback)

Brimful of scandal, illicit affairs, spurned loves and unexpected tragedy, The Million Dollar Duchesses reveals the closed-door bargaining which led to these most influential matches and how America's heiresses shook-up British high society for ever.

(Hardback)

A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War-a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.

(Paperback)

The charge at The Nek has been immortalised in art, literature and film and has come to epitomise both the futility and courage of the Gallipoli campaign. This new edition includes new information, maps and photographs.

(Paperback)

The New Century continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back over the last decade, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts and between state of war and state of peace disappearing.

(Hardback)

The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published.

(Paperback)

Experience the history, politics, and tragedy of World War II through the original, often firsthand daily reportage of The New York Times, our country's newspaper of record.

(Paperback)

A magnificent new study of the political crisis that produced the overthrow of King Charles I, and came to engulf all three Stuart kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - in war during the 1640s.

(Hardback)

The Definitive First-Person Account of the Day That Changed the World

(Paperback, Export - Airside ed)

The story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason.

(Hardback)

This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its banking, insurance and investment institutions. Written by award-winning journalist Ray Perman who has reported on the Edinburgh financial industry for 40 years.

(Hardback)

This book tells the extraordinary story of Shetlands most enduring export. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic and the remote ice filled fjords of west Greenland to the Basque country, from the fishing grounds of Iceland to the Jewish shtetls of Poland and from the mountains of Faroe to the flat coastline of the Netherlands.

(Paperback)

New edition of this definitive and accessible guide to Scotland's genetic history.

(Hardback)

The story of the Savoy's founders, through three generations and a hundred years of luxury.

(Hardback)

Told for the first time, this is the extraordinary story of how an obscure Victorian Scottish minister invented the technology which may take us to the stars.Phillip Hills weaves science and history together to tell the story of one of the most exciting scientific developments the world has ever seen.

(Paperback)

The Storm is Here is a record of a year that changed America.

(Hardback)

The gripping and little known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II

(Paperback)

Describing the discovery of the Tarim Mummies and revealing the attempts of scientists to determine their ethnic identity, this book examines the evidence connected with the mummies, including textiles and languages of the Tarim region.

(Paperback, Unabridged edition)

The story of the courtroom drama that precipitated the rise of the Nazi party.

(Hardback, Main)

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.

(Paperback)

Shows the reader what it was really like in everybody's favourite film landscape: the American Wild West in the days of Jesse James and Dodge City. This title offers advice on the boarding houses and filthiest saloons, what to eat, what to wear, who to meet and who to avoid and how to get out of Dodge in a hurry if you fail to spot the difference.

(Hardback)

A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life.