Historie

Václav Smil

Alena Mizerová, Lea Novotná, Radka Vyskočilová…

A university without its own publishing house is like a cathedral without an organ: wild-growing and silent. Masaryk University has got its publishing house, which even ranks among the largest in Central…

Neil MacGregor

From the Director of the British Museum and author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of GERMANY like no other. For the past 140 years, GERMANY has been the central power in continental…

Stephen Greenblatt

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of…

Ben Macintyre

Angela Y. Davis

Yuval Noah Harari

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? And what will our world be like…

Kehinde Andrews

Christopher Clark

A brilliantly reviewed history of this 'Great Power' which dominated Europe from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, which includes remarkable accounts of some of the most extraordinary personalities in…

Elie Wiesel

Wiesel's account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps, including a new preface is which he reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring…

Tony Judt

An acclaimed and magisterial narrative history of Europe in our time. 'It escapes from the stale paradigms of the Cold War, places the European Union in perspective, and has fresh and provocative things…

Anne Frank

Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world.…

Robert Graysmith

Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of the killer's…

Mark Forsyth

Mark Forsyth, author of the no.1 "Sunday Times" bestseller "The Etymologicon" unwraps the fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully…

Timothy Snyder

Norman Ohler

An account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops. In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler shows how…

David Talbot

Now in paperback, this is a biography of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA, who manipulated presidents, protected German war criminals and colluded with the Mafiosi.

Ron Chernow

The renowned author of "Titan," whom the "New York Times" has called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," vividly recreates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's…

Howard Zinn

James Barr

The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle lines of the modern Middle East. Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston…

John Douglas

Mary Beard

Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire in this major non-fiction release for 2015. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from…

David Christian

Odd Arne Westad