History Books

Find The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage from publishers Old Street Publishing at Books2Door! ; 72 black and white illustrations, ma...

Find Queen Elizabeth II: A Glorious 70 Years by Alison James from publishers Danann Media Publishing Limited at Books2Door! ; 144 pages; Publishe...

For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories,...

Find Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator by Darryl Cunningham from publishers Myriad Editions at Books2Door! ; 144 pages, Colour illustration...

Find Focke-Wulf Ta 154: Luftwaffe Reich Defence Day and Night Interceptor by Dietmar Hermann from publishers Crecy Publishing at Books2Door! ; 22...

Find American Secret Projects 4: Bombers, Attack and Anti-Submarine Aircraft 1945-1974 by Tony Buttler from publishers Crecy Publishing at Books2Do...

Find The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst from publishers Old Street Publishing at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 01/04/2018

Find The Shortest History of England by James Hawes from publishers Old Street Publishing at Books2Door! ; 240 pages; Published: 03/11/2020

Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book PrizeUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking ...

When Princess Elizabeth became Queen on 6 February 1952, few could have anticipated that she would go on to become Britain's longest-reigning monar...

Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and r...

'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German mi...

With an Introduction by Angus Calder. As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major st...

Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day.This beautifully illustrated daily anth...

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and whit...

Evil and hope clash and burn in the epic and shocking conclusion to the Shadow of the Fox trilogy. 'One of my all-time favour...

For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and...

Celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the incredible history of HM Queen Elizabeth II's 70-year reign, told through the enthralling life storie...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer peo...

Travel across the world and back in time to meet the incredible creatures that once stalked our planet, including dinosaurs, flying reptiles and ma...

'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC HistoryFrom Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first st...

The Queen was Britain's longest-reigning monarch and one of the most famous women in the world. But what was she really like? This enthralling stor...

'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the YearThe Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous coup...

Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it mi...

'One of the best business books I've read in years.' BILL GATES THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 _____________...

SAS Great Escapes tells the story of seven of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed during WWII by what is arguably the world's most famous...

'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' Dan SnowJune 1944: the SAS parachute deep into occupied France, to wreak havoc and bloody mayhem. ...

Based on the Gigantosaurus animated TV series. Four young dinosaurs navigate the Cretaceous world in this ROAR-some prehistoric adventure!After d...

Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of gal...

The top five Sunday Times bestseller. 'Breathtaking' Daily Mail. 'Astonishing' Sun. 'Shimmering' Spectator. 'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph. The Co...

Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long bee...

'An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.' Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'The sprightly narrative and vivid evocati...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white En...

In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, meet Emmeline Pankhurst, an inspiring women's righ...

In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood ...

Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a ...

From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant t...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sis...

___________A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this sup...

___________'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle... than you w...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLER; Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018; One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017...

Find This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History by Esther Rutter from publishers Granta Books at Books2Door! ; 352 pages; Pu...

Winner of the Tir na n-Og AwardShortlisted for the Young Quills Historical Fiction AwardLonglisted for the Carnegie MedalIt is the year 454AD. The ...

***'An indispensable volume'Vogue'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate...

How is The Colour Code different to other books on colour? Well, the short answer is that it is a whole lot more fun - not least because it is exte...

Find Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber from publishers Melville House Publishing at Books2Door! ; 548 pages; Published: 28/10/2014

By the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on the...