‘Shows how a scrappy band of 13 colonies fought and bought its way to superpower size’ THE TIMES
For seven years after the Declaration of Independence the United States had no internationally recognized boundaries and no defined sovereign territory. It was more an idea than a country.
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
‘Battle Guide is a wonderful resource that transforms how we visit battlefields and allows us to understand what really happened in a way that has never been shown before. It is pioneeringly brilliant.’James Holland
A Waterstones and BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year
The Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025
‘Terrific – full of drama … it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War’ PATRICK BISHOP
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO.
A Times Book of the Year
‘A superb work of history’ JAMES HOLLAND
‘A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history’ DAN SNOW
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
‘Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine’s frontlines – some to save democracy, some to save themselves. A modern-day Homage to Catalonia – and Fight Club on steroids.’ – Oliver Poole, London Standard
‘No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer’ JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose’ THE TIMES
