Category:History

1

• 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer

5

• 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts

A

• Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite
• All in a Don's Day by Mary Beard
• Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys by Neil Oliver
• American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush by Nigel Hamilton
• The American Civil War by John Keegan
• The American Future: A History by Simon Schama
• The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
• Anonymity by John Mullan
• Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones
• Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and Companion by Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji
• The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
• Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas

B

• The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
• Bath Times and Nursery Rhymes by Pam Weaver
• The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a new Foreign Office, 1855 - 61 by Bernard Porter
• The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund
• Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
• Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
• Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
• Birds in a Cage by Derek Niemann
• Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped by A.Roger Ekirch
• Blood River by Tim Butcher
• Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
• The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
• Blue China by Bamboo Hirst
• Bomber County by Daniel Swift
• The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare by Doug Stewart
• The Bridge by Geert Mak
• Bright Young Things by Alison Maloney
• Brothers in War by Michael Walsh
• Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot
• The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

C

• The Cage by Gordon Weiss
• Calamities and Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History by Derek Wilson
• Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years by Louise Foxcroft
• The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by Emma Smith
• Can I Come Home, Please? by Phil Robins
• Capital Crimes: Seven centuries of London life and murder by Max Decharne
• The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie
• Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours by Emily Cockayne
• Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
• Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes
• Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain by John Welshman
• Clara's War by Clara Kramer
• The Classic Guide to Famous Assassinations (Classic Guides) by Sarah Herman
• Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
• The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
• The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
• A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch
• A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray
• The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge

D

• Da Vinci's Ghost: The untold story of Vitruvian Man by Toby Lester
• Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
• The Dangerous Book of Heroes by Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden
• Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
• Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
• Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship by Frances Woodsford
• Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore
• Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J Prince
• Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age by Adrian Johns
• The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer

D cont.

• Defeating Hitler: Whitehall's Top Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War by Paul Winter
• Defiance by Nechama Tec
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
• The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace by Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson (Editors)
• Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
• Dinner with Churchill: The Prime Minister's Tabletop Diplomacy by Cita Stelzer
• The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story by Catherine Fletcher
• Dot-Dash To Dot.Com by Andrew Wheen
• Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire by Claire Pettitt
• Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City by Jim Krane
• Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family Businesses by David Landes

E

• The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn by Josephine Wilkinson
• Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
• Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
• Egyptian Dawn: Exposing the Real Truth Behind Ancient Egypt by Robert Temple
• Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
• Elbow Grease: How our Grandmothers and Great-Grandmothers Kept House by Jacqueline Percival
• Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
• Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
• Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman
• Enemies of Books by William Blades, Randolph G. Adams, Bagher Bachchha (Editor)
• The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
• Escape from the Nazis: The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland by Benjamin Mandelkern
• An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorjan
• Exodus From the Alamo by Phillip Thomas Tucker

F

• The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan
• Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
• The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
• Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
• The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
• The First Emperor of China by Frances Wood
• The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch
• For College, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football Club by Patrick Casey and Richard I Hale
• For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul
• For King and Country: Voices from the First World War by Brian MacArthur
• For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication by John O'Connell
• The Forbidden City by Geremie R Barme
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
• The Fourth of July: And the Founding of America by Peter De Bolla
• Free Radicals by Michael Brooks
• Frenzy!: How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities by Neil Root
• The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
• The Future History of the Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world by Charles Emmerson

G

• Gallipoli by Peter Hart
• The Games We Played by Susan Kelleher
• Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore by Roy Vickery
• Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait by Carola Hicks
• Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum
• The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny by Shirin Ebadi
• The Good Old Days by Gilda O'Neill
• The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade by William St Clair
• A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
• The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 by Ciaran O Murchadha
• The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson
• The Great War by Peter Hart
• Guernica and Total War by Ian Patterson
• Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink

H

• Hancox by Charlotte Moore
• Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi
• Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
• The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
• A History of English Food by Clarissa Dickson Wright
• A History of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer
• A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
• A History of Warfare by John Keegan

H cont.

• History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W Ryback
• Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire by Pete Brown
• How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer by Mick Conefrey
• How to Research Local History by Pamela Brooks
• How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson

I

• I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History by Tim Moore
• I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Revisit Key Moments in History by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K Rabb (editors)
• The Immortal Dinner: A famous evening of genius and laughter in literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
• Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise
• Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe
• Into the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South by David Lane
• Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945 by Betty Lussier
• Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women … the Romans that History Forgot by Robert Knapp
• An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak
• The Isle of Man: Portrait of a Nation by John Grimson

J

• Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of Boxing by Kevin Mitchell
• A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright
• A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
• Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

K

• Kamikaze: History's Greatest Naval Disaster by James Delgado
• Katherine Swynford by Alison Weir
• The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After by Steven M Gillon
• Killing Hitler by Roger Moorhouse
• King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
• The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses by David Baldwin

L

• The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
• The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
• The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
• Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the World by Stefan Klein
• Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940 by Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang
• London in the 18th century by Jerry White
• London Under by Peter Ackroyd
• London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750 by Robert O Bucholz and Joseph P Ward
• London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
• London: The Illustrated History by Cathy Ross and John Clark
• The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard
• The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
• The Lost Mona Lisa by R A Scotti
• Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt
• The Lotus Quest by Mark Griffiths
• A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal

M

• Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology by Paul Oppenheimer
• Made to last: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firm by Mark Palmer
• The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of Portugal by Jenifer Roberts
• Mafia Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias by John Dickie
• The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Sara Wheeler
• A Magnificent Disaster: The Failure of the Market Garden, the Arnhem Operation, September 1944 by David Bennett
• Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History by Nick Bunker
• The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
• The Masters of Manton: From Alec Taylor to George Todd by Paul Mathieu
• Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, first Queen of England by Tracy Borman
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies by Ian Mortimer
• The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme by Gavin Stamp
• The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
• MetaMAUS by Art Spiegelman
• Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943 - 1945 by David Stafford
• Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
• The Moon and Madness by Niall McCrae
• Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War by Rodric Braithwaite