General and world history

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign.

The satanic sex ring takes place around a quarry, near your friend s house.

Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse.

Who is the Downing of Downing Street?

In this riveting book, political journalist Peter Snow and military historian Dan Snow bring to life the most intense and bitterly fought battles of the 20th century - from the apocalyptic terrain of the Western Front to the desert landscape of Iraq.

When do you think the Second World War ended?

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTSIn this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all.

The Pimlico Dictionary of Classical Mythologies is a unique work of reference which breaks new ground by treating for the first time the classical mythologies of the Old World as a whole.

';One of the very best World War II books in many yearsA great read.

After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo.

'Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire!

Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink.

In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war.

Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history.

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to set Europe ablaze .

Santa Claus began as Nicholas, a Byzantine bishop whose anonymous acts of nighttime charity would turn him into the most popular and enduring of all saints.

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.

'Our childhood came to an end when our parents parted and from then on Jennifer was placed in the impossible position of having to be a parent to me, her sister.

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.

Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution.

With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born.

The Keys of the Kingdom is the unforgettable story of the Reverend Francis Chisholm and his fight against the snares of the world he has given up .

This volume tells the story of the evacuations of children from wartorn Britain to America during World War II.

General Montgomery lead the 8th Army to victory at El Alamein in 1942, and as Chief of Land Forces in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 he received Germany's surrender in 1945.

For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation.

'Just you think,' wrote one soldier to his family, 'that while you were eating your turkey I was out talking with the very men I had been trying to kill a few hours before!

If the 1960s was the decade of peace, love and understanding, the 1970s was the decade of glitter and glam rock.

Secret instructons written in invisible ink.

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.

_______________________The true story behind the hit NETFLIX dramaFrom the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks.

Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century.

In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time.

The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep the more so in the dark and in winter.

History always comes down to the details.

Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.

In these secular times, confessing to a belief in the apocalypse consigns a person to Christian fundamentalism or to cult status.

A unique and enthralling anthology compiled by WWII flying ace, Laddie Lucas, Voices in the Air tells the story of the air battles of the Second World War in the voices of those who took part.

Simon Forman was one of the most extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London.

No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening , wrote Churchill.

Refreshes the parts other history books can t reach.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task.

This skilfully compiled anthology draws on the phenomenally successful Forgotten Voices series.

'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read?

The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps.

Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case.

'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.