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
A detailed portrait of the Jewish families whose collecting dominated the art world, and of their pillaging by the Nazis and the subsequent attempts at restitution.
That venerable and dedicated historian of ancient India travelled half a century ago to northern and north-western China to work at the cave sites of Maijishan and Dunhuang; based on her dia... read more
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
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
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
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
'The lion of Panjshir' was the Afghan politician and military commander who fought brilliantly against the Russians during their occupation, and led the Northern Alliance that resisted the T... read more
The Director of the V&A looks at how the great ceramicist and Lunar man transformed society by creating an early form of international mass market, while also significantly contributing to t... read more
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
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
A revisionist account of one of Ireland's darkest chapters - the Civil War of 1922-1923 - which stresses how, a century on, modern Irish politics are still partly defined by its divisive leg... read more
An entertaining group-biog of the American babes who inherited money and married titles. The usual line-up: Mary Davies (Grosvenor), Consuelo Vanderbilt (Marlborough); Singer, Fellowes, de J... read more
MH constructs an enthralling narrative of Vatican intrigue by drawing on Cardinal Ippolito d'Este's records of the papal conclave of 1559. She shows how both the papacy and the political fat... read more
The first of a two-volume history of this cosmopolitan and romantic landscape, stretching from the mountains of Georgia to the shores of the Caspian sea. Baumer, an historian and explorer (a... read more