A brilliantly readable history of privacy with a simple and urgent argument: private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.

An authoritative, original and exciting history of the French nation, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

The definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, from the world's leading expert.

The gripping - and little-known - story of the courtroom drama that was a stunning victory for the young Adolf Hitler and precipitated the rise of the Nazi party.

An engaging popular history of the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.

A vivid people's history, based on original source material, of the twelve months leading up to the outbreak of the war nobody wanted in 1939, perfect for fans of Antony Beevor, Max Hastings, Christopher Clark and Margaret Macmillan.

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the ‘Little Ice Age’.

An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.

The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.