Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has...

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The Madman's Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the...

This is the first English language account of the formative years between Napoleon's birth in 1796 and when he first...

Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021) The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship. 'Bismarck was now loose in...

Ever since Plato described the lost civilization of Atlantis, scholars and cartographers have speculated about its location. Drawing on the...

Alexander the Great is hailed as the world's greatest leaders of all time, renowned for his bravery, his loyalty and...

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full...

‘War is a duel written large.’ How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles?...

The prevailing opinion of Columbus is that he was responsible for almost everything that went wrong in the New World,...

Hannibal’s enduring reputation as a man and as a general is due to his enemies’ fascination with him. The way...

An analysis of six decades of unchanging American foreign policy, focusing particularly on the Cold War, and then tying that...

We use the word 'Celtic' fast and loose - it evokes something mythical and romantic about our past - but...

By the time the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918, vast tracts of the European landscape had been so...

For many commentators then and now, it was the English archers who won the day for Henry V. This lavishly...

A sumptuous guide to the art of Henry VIII - and what his collection of paintings and artworks reveal about...