This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

Written nearly 50 years ago Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook conjures up a time when addressing..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

In Tudor England Mary Queen of Scots was under house arrest and her letters were censored so she sew..

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies packed his notepad and set off in search of B..

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys two princes walking b..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..