Team of Five

Life in The 1950s

The 1950s began in the shadow of War. In Britain, food was still rationed as the country strove to pay off the huge debts that

Peace in the Making

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Last Man Out

The author of Praying for Sheetrock retells the fantastic story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining

The Briefing

As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump's press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean

Life in the 1970s

The 1970s are noted as the decade of strikes, the winter of discontent and the three-day week. But is this the full story
what was

More Noble Than War

By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football has never been shy

Pocket Essentials: A Short History of India

The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st-century India is a dynamic nation with a thrivting economy, made up of a variety of beliefs

From Eton Manor to the Olympics : More Lea Valley Secrets Revealed

With a wealth of information regarding the Lea Valley's history, this guide provides a special emphasis on the regions past, and forthcoming 2012, Olympic connecti...

My Thoughts Be Bloody

My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s

Everything in Moderation

'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane, intelligent and witty. He

How To Win a Roman Chariot Race

Profesorul de limbi clasice de la Oxford, Jane Hood, propune o incursiune în istoria, cultura, literatura, mitologia și filozofia Greciei antice, Romei și Egiptului. Hoo...

Witnessing Waterloo

Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon’s escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace

Murders, Plots and Mysteries

Crime flows through history like a muddied tide, flecked with the red blood of murder.

The 15:17 To Paris

he 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the

The Value of Worthless Lives

There are many good books on Italian immigration to the United States, including success biographies, field researches and historical investigations. What is lacking howe...

Thrift

'In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging

The Great War In Portraits

In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and

The Accidental Capitalist

In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new

Whatever It Took

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper

A CENTURY OF CHANGE

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day.

Conspiracy Theories

Is the world as we know it a lie? Could the truth be something far different to what we're told it is? Whether it's the

Lucifer Rising British Intelligence and the Occult in the Second World War

Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so the British secret services turn to figures from the occult

1919 - a Land Fit for Heroes

The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians' dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of

A New Birth of Freedom

The book presents a powerful case for reviewing and renewing the basis of our most important human rights.

A Brief History of The British Army

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken

The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements,

Pacific Futures

The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But

Peace and War: Britain In 1914

1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war
suffragette agitation was

Establishment and Meritocracy

Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to

UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth : A Short History of UFOlogy

This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt

Facts, Legends & Mysteries: Pyramids of Giza

Piramidele din Giza sunt singura din cele Șapte Minuni ale Lumii care a rezistat tipului. Sfidând secolele, aceste monumente funerare gigantice construite cu mai mult

Not for Patching

In his famous report of 1942, the economist and social reformer William Beveridgewrote that the war was a 'revolutionary moment in the world's history' and

Liberty and Conscience

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their

Charlie Company Journeys Home

Folosind nenumărate interviuri, precum și jurnale și scrisori originale, Andrew Wiest dezvăluie oroarea războiului din Vietnam pentru cei rămași în urmă și luptele durab...

After Vietnam

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After

Reader's Digest and The Royals : A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family

The Reader’s Digest Magazine has a long and close association with the Royal Family. This book, reproduced from the magazine archives, features the best of

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the final volume in her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and inspiring true story of the women

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation

Dole Queues and Demons

A unique blend of graphic design, bold art or photography and cunning psychology, election posters are an unsung art form, stretching back to the dawn

The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World

When the ship of dreams sank, so did the Edwardian era. In this original and meticulously-researched narrative history, Gareth Russell considers the real story of

Hubris

Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years. In this wise and masterly work that he

Women warriors for Allah

Dutch investigative journalists Janny Groen and Annieke Kranenberg offer an indispensable corrective to the conventional view that Muslim women in jihad are either pacifi...

Scotland Vs England

For 300 years, Scotland and England have stood together, united in glorious kinship. This text is full of angry jibes and gentle jokes between the

Inventory

A lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson’s grandfather

An American Body-politic

A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history

A History of the Rod

This famous book was first published in 1865, at the apogée of the Victorian era. Its full title—‘A History of the Rod in All Countries,

Cost

The world needs a strong America, and America needs an economic revival after the Coronavirus season of shutdowns. Can the playbook that resulted in the

Trump on Trump

Un lucru nu poate fi negat despre Donald Trump, faptul că spune ce gândește... și rezultatele sunt fascinante! Aflați cum funcționează această minte citindu-i cuvintele....

Aisne 1914

The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of

Lusitania : The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including

Angels of mercy

William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation's first orphanage for African American

American Bible-Whose America Is This?

The New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One presents a provocative crash course in the great 'American scriptures'--those texts

Calling All Cars

Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this

The American South in a Global World

These snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being

FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES

How much can you really find out about the Trenches of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass

Victory in the Desert

Mary Ball Washington

The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In

The Sea! the Sea!

'Thalatta Thalatta ' ('The Sea The Sea'), was the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the famous Ten Thousand, the army

First World War at Sea: 5 Minute History

How much can you really find out about the War at Sea during the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book

Fighting monsters

Against the backdrop of the British-American law- and war-making of the first decade of the millennium, Fighting Monsters considers how the way we think about