From the New York Times best-selling author comes the definitive history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.  On June 18, 1815, ...

Waterloo

More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin - the highest rated PBS drama in 20 years, second only to Downton Abbey.  But what happened after the queen marrie...

Victoria & Albert

The Nuremberg Trials were the most important criminal proceedings ever held. They established the principle that individuals will always be held responsible for their actions under international law, and brought closure to World War II, allowing the reconstruction of Europe to begin.

The Nuremberg Trials

The official companion to ITV's hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England's greatest monarchs.  From the producers o...

The Victoria Letters: The Official Companion to the ITV Victoria Series

A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the US confronted the USSR during the Cold War. East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation o...

Checkpoint Charlie

A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. Africa: the world's poorest continent and arguably its richest. While accounting for just...

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth

From the internationally best-selling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle - this is the true story of Waterloo.  On the 18th June, 1815, the armies of France, Britain, and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south ...

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

The bitter Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front was the turning point of World War II. The relentless and unstoppable German advances that had seen the panzers sweep hundreds of miles into Russia was finally brought to a halt. The elite German S...

Stalingrad

Across the world governments proclaim they will never "negotiate with evil". And yet they always have done and always will. Why then do we ignore the lessons of this history of clandestine communication, often with devastating consequences?  Jonathan...

Talking to Terrorists

Off the Deep End is the first detailed study of the effect on sanity that the vastness, loneliness and inestimable power of the sea has always had on sailors' sanity, confusing the senses and making rational thought difficult. Eminently listenable, i...

Off the Deep End

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of 13.  In his nearly fifty years in the Navy Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero

The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens, let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler. These men were leaders of the Gestapo, the secre...

Gestapo: The Story Behind Hitler's Machine of Terror

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction "A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer.... There's something that hits the mark on every page" (Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman) From where does Homer co...

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

During World War II, many deeply mysterious events took place in the fog and chaos of conflict. These were classified, hushed up, and kept from the public eye, and yet with the recent opening of secret archives, new light has been shed on these stran...

Unsolved Mysteries of World War II

A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank.  Footsteps pound up...

The Last Hour

Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their demands.  Dan Jones' vivid account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politic...

In the Reign of King John

Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Remarkable Diaries traces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. I...

Remarkable Diaries

In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germ...

Prague Spring

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's best-selling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's rema...

Over the Hills and Far Away

Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diaries traces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It bri...

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