History

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh ...

Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People ha...

When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle...

The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cyli...

Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popu...

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketche...

The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis...

Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the p...

Surabaya, 1945 - 2010 presents the recent history of one of Indonesia's great port cities as viewed from a crowded low-income neighbourhood (kampun...

The Basics: Ancient Near East surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great's conquest. The b...

This classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung period to the art of Yuan dynasty literat...

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed g...

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of ...

translated by Michael Hofmann 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath ...