The third volume in the bestselling The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural a...

As a young Reuters correspondent, Bridgland revealed the secret invasion in 1975 of post-independence Angola by apartheid South Africa’s armed forc...

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first...

In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through mi...

'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday TelegraphIT IS THE DEPTH...

The South African Special Forces, or Recces, has always been known for their gruelling selection course that pushes soldiers to the ends of their p...

In January 1900, galvanised by the daring of the Boers in taking on imperial Britain, the young Russian officer Yevgeny Avgustus set off for the Tr...

Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. However, he was no armchair soldier – the statesman courageously...

Dit is ’n sensitiewe, getroue, amusante vertelling oor die unieke ervarings van ’n Vrystaatse boeregesin tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Van die s...

'A fascinating and informative account of the BBC's first 100 years' Daily Telegraph 'A dramatic tale of innovation and determination' Guardian In ...

'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant cl...

'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautif...

This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the new security, political and social environment since 1994...

"The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a ...

An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through importa...

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR'Captivating . . . a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Obs...

'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started o...

African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wre...

The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his thesis explained in the book, African-Am...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi...

Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineIn 2022 it will b...