Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

A lavishly illustrated account of India's most beloved epic, the story of Rama, the legendary warrior prince of Ayodhya.

Modern and ancient history are tangled and layered upon each other in the Middle East. Israel and the Palestinians are always in the foreground, but conflict and change in the Middle East stretches beyond these two players. Axelrod helps you gain a better understanding of the national ambitions, ...

This wonderous guide for the curious introduces eighteen hidden places and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them, such as a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps and a spooky "initiation" well in Portugal built by a secret society.

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective. .Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by wester...

The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman ruler...

How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we are all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the cosmos - from the Big Bang, through the evolution of li...

The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of C Force -- the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch prisoners of war shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942. These men worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then th...

The untold story of one of the finest Australian air crews in World War II, and one of the most dangerous missions of the war in Europe. Bruce Buckham was captain of one of the finest Lancaster crews in Bomber Command in World War II. The Australians were famous for their exploits in the air and ...

The royal family is the original Coronation Street: a long-running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Its members have become celebrities, like upmarket versions of film stars and footballers. But they have also become a byword for arrogance, entitlement, hypocrisy and indi...

In 1533 Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's closest friend. Duchess of Suffolk at the age of fourteen, she became a powerful woman ruling over her houses at Grimsthorpe and Tattershall in Lincolnshire and wielding subtle influence through her proximity to the King. She grew...