What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with these questions.

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?

The past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.

Unexpected Nation. The fullest, most serious account of a long-volatile region, now covering the period from 2015 to the present, including the rise of Zelensky and the Russian invasion.

Describes the key members of Stalin's court: Beria, Malenkov, Zhukov, Molotov and Khruschchev.

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutat...