History & Classics
Our History & Classics books are ideal for readers of ancient, military and social history. Mary Beard brings ancient Greece and Rome to life in SPQR, Emperor of Rome and Talking Classics; Rashid Khalidi unpacks the Middle East in his internationally acclaimed The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine and Andrew Martin chronicles the British seaside holiday in the Sunday Times bestseller To the Sea by Train.
The Aeneid
Shadi Bartsch
A fresh translation of Vergil's Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature
War
Margaret MacMillan
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in – for good and evil.
Cows and Curates
Judith Curthoys
A unique account of the land and property owned by Oxford's grandest college
The Black Book
Sybil Oldfield
Discover the stories of the heroic individuals singled out for death by the Nazis' plan to invade Britain
Breaking Bread with the Dead
Alan Jacobs
The past isn't cancelled: it's not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regret…
Britain at Bay
Alan Allport
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?
Rummage
Emily Cockayne
An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages
At Close Range
Peter Hart
A British Band of Brothers: a thrilling account of the Second World War, told through the eyes of a regiment who fought at battles from Tobruk to the…
Active Measures
Thomas Rid
This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organized deception from the Russian Revolution to contempor…
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid I. Khalidi
This is the story of Palestine told from the inside
Victory in the Kitchen
Annie Gray
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
A Scheme of Heaven
Alexander Boxer
'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
Nuking the Moon
Vince Houghton
Agent Zigzag meets The Book of Heroic Failures and The GCHQ Quiz Book
The Gravediggers
Hauke Friederichs
A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frighten…
A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles
Ned Palmer
A celebration of cheese to go perfectly with your summer picnic cheeseboard
Imperial Tragedy
Michael Kulikowski
Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative
The King's Cathedral
Judith Curthoys
An inside account of the cathedral at the heart of Oxford's grandest college