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Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.
He kept his ...
Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here ...
The remarkable story of Australia's First Nations Languages, from precolonial times to the present
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays ...
In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy's long life, exposing a rich and complicated family ...
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan
'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent
'[A] massive achievement' Spectator
For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition ...
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the ...
The Sunday Times Bestseller
A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023
A Spectator Book of the Year 2023
The Irish Times No.1 ...
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES
'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND ...
It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong.
In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers ...
"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is ...
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever
The ...
The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed ...
An immersive, magisterial portrait of Myanmar, told through the story of its hidden railways
In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond ...
A new story of rural Britain and its colonial past, through a series of country walks
The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There ...
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts ...