Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book PrizeWhy did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history?
"e;By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse"e; - Elena Rzhevskaya"e;A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"e;- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker.
The book "e;Al-Nawadir Al-Sultaniyya wal-Mahasin Al-Yusufiya"e; (Sultanic Anecdotes and Yusufian Merits) is one of the most important historical sources that immortalize the biography of the great Muslim leader Saladin Ayyubi.
In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japans forced opening of Koreas ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953.
In his book, A History of the Transvaal, Michael Aghia takes us to the heart of the African continent to uncover hidden chapters of European colonialism and the conflict between Christian sects that forced many to migrate into the unknown.
In the writings of ancient Christians, the near-ubiquitous references to the fear of God have traditionally been seen as a generic placeholder for piety.
In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine.
