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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights MovementWinner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about Dr. Martin Luther King...

Reissue with a new Introduction by acclaimed historian Antony Beevor vividly bringing to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War.Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War - reissued with...

Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic—in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover artThe graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W. Shutes, and the "unsinkable" M...

An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative.Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented port...

Now in its second edition, : The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordinary story of how tens of thousands of African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more black people, along with those of differe...

The most pivotal, brutal and shattering campaign the Allies faced in World War II by bestselling historian James Holland.'Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian FaulksWith the invasion of Fran...

In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramon Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin.But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a decade-long global hunt: a story...

How life was lived in one of Paris's great hotels, before, during and after the Second World WarThe Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only 'grand' hotel on the city's bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. Andre Gide...

'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' - DAN SNOWHow could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , on...

Based on the true story of a Jewish barman-cum-spy who served the Nazis in the Ritz Paris during occupation - for fans of Anthony Doerr and Amor Towles.An Immediate Bestseller - A Bloomberg Best Book of 2025'Philippe Collin is a magnificent storyteller. This novel fascinates at every turn.' ElleWhen...

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerAn award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenti...

The bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches with a gripping, vividly told journey into his family's wartime pastMalcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph's wartime adventures- he'd been a prisoner in Italy, and he'd cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. Apart from...

The gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMANFrom the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fid...

The story of a hotel. The story of a nation.When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the Inter-Continental is still standing. It has endured Soviet occupation, multip...

'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals' - The Times Literary SupplementIn Armageddon, one of Britain's most highly regarded historians tells the epic story of the bloody last eight months of the war in Europe.In 1944 German forces suffered catastrophic defeats during the battles for Ho...

Witness the best and the worst of humanity in.On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university...

A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringNow part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of K nigsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel...

A brief and thrilling introduction to Japan from one of the country's leading British historiansIn this enormously enjoyable introduction to a remarkable country, Christopher Harding traces Japan's rich history over several millennia. Beginning with its earliest coastal communities through to the sp...

They weren't invited to the revolution - so they led one of their own.Beneath the roar of cannons and cries for liberty, a quieter but equally powerful force was rising. Women of the French Revolution uncovers the fearless women who shaped one of history's most pivotal upheavals.From market stalls t...

This title covers the turbulent history of France from 1774 to 1802 and the revolutionary events and larger than life individuals whose ideas and actions sent shock waves around Europe. Each enquiry tackles a discrete topic which together build a rounded and balanced picture of the causes, the cours...

Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend, Peter Cozzens - the award-winning author of The Earth is Weeping - unveils the true face of Deadwood, South Dakota, the storied mining town that sprang up in early 1876, and was made famous by the HBO series of the same name.Built on land brazenl...

From the bestselling author of The Bronx is Burning, a superlative account of the New York at a dramatic turning point in its historyNew York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reel...

A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years agoIn 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking trea...