Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history 'Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire.' Italy was the centre of ...

"When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carr...

They were doomed from the very beginning. During the Second World War, it didn't take long for the British Secret Services to discover that Nazi Germany's cohorts of espionage agents influenced either by the illusionary light of profit or idealism, or the darkness of blackmail and reprisals were ...

Here is the history of humankind's relationship with music in fifty detective stories. Sound Tracks is a transporting and extraordinary voyage of discovery, each chapter a time-machine focusing on musical finds uncovered in archaeological digs around the world. From the present day all the way ba...

An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters -- for China, the West and everyone's future. When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao's Communists won and took China's mainland; Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and...

In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the...

Spanning 78 wardrobe essentials, 60 quintessential creations by iconic fashion houses, and 22 subcultural styles, Timeless weaves together an intricate picture of the evolution of style. Timeless offers a window into the stories behind iconic fashion, the designers who revolutionised the industry...

An accessible and wide-ranging overview of the moments and milestones of the Second World War, this book offers a fresh angle on the subject, bringing the conflict to life through contemporary photos, documents, maps, and artefacts of importance. From the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany in t...

Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, and has been instrumental in bringing the innate misogyny of the police to public attention. "Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac" reinterprets the bloody, violent story of tw...