History Books

'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesEighteenth-century Scotland is famed for gene...

*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT '...

'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'A huge contribution... remarkable' Ant...

'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar o...

'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global cri...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Mem...

'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ... You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart, Evening Standard'A s...

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and chil...

70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington ...

The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world war. It's a harrowing look at one of history's dark...

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard C...

Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of o...

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history,...

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history ...

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this book." - Neil Gaiman Praised throughout the ca...

'I was completely captivated' Barbara Erskine The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O'Br...

'Historical fiction at its best' Reader review The Tattooist of Auschwitz meets Girl with a Pearl Earring in this gripping, du...

'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would ...

The Times Thrillers of the Year 2020 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has arrived in...

The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...

The final masterpiece from one of the greatest storytellers and illustrators of all time - David Walliams The hilarious story of...

London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. 'Finlay depicts a seedy, ...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book on the...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller* 'Extraordinary Insects is a joy' The Times A Sunday Tim...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. ...

Nicola Corick's latest spellbinding historical mystery, The Winter Garden, is available to pre-order now! A secret hidden in the...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times '...

The forgotten story of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. A strong woman who claimed the throne for her family in a time of war... ...

COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'This is the book that has bee...

An oath of loyalty. Two warring kings. A destiny he didn't choose... England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxon...

The 11th book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As...

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourf...

Winner of The HWA Gold Crown 2020 From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court comes the next book...

The tenth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. A...

This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. Th...

Find The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer from publishers Old Street Publishing at Books2Door! ; 256 pages; Published: 08/02/2022

Find Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us by James Hawes from publishers Old Street Publishing at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 05/04/2022

Find The Shortest History of England by James Hawes from publishers Old Street Publishing at Books2Door! ; 240 pages; Published: 16/06/2021

The Sunday Times Top 10 BestsellerShortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, c...

Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages. Imagine you could travel bac...

The end of the beginning... An epic conflictNorth Africa was a turning point for the British in the Second World War: a harsh landscape of sand and...

The bloodiest battle in the history of the British Army. In 1916 the Great War seemed caught in a stalemate. The British were determined to break i...

This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history.Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF ...

A compelling history of the greatest ships ever launched.The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships a...

Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of thems...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Tim...

From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a...