History
Essential books illuminating key periods of history, from the Romans to the Tudors to World War 1. Delve into the history of England with Peter Ackroyd, explore Britain’s forgotten multicultural past with David Olusoga, or uncover the violent rise of early Christianity with Catherine Nixey.
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Margaret George’s favourite stories of the Roman Empire.
Empire's Crossroads
Carrie Gibson
Some Desperate Glory
Max Egremont
Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir
Jean Trumpington
Armageddon
Max Hastings
Churchill's Empire
Richard Toye
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Helen Rappaport
I Wish I'd Been There
Byron Hollinshead
Theodore Rabb
Queen of the Desert
Georgina Howell
Dispatches
Michael Herr
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller
Give Me Ten Seconds
John Sergeant
The Seventies Unplugged
Gerard DeGroot
Act Of God
Graham Phillips
Editor
Max Hastings
Passions Between Women
Emma Donoghue
Last Letters Home
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Lloyd George and Churchill
Richard Toye
The Little Captive
Lise Kristensen
A History of the First World War
B. H. Liddell Hart
A History of the Second World War
B. H. Liddell Hart
Good Eating
Telegraph Group Limited
The Ancient Paths
Graham Robb
Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures
Bear Grylls
The Restoration of Rome
Peter Heather
Flat Earth
Christine Garwood
More What If?
Robert Cowley
Flappers
Judith Mackrell
The Crystal Bucket
Clive James
The Dreaming Swimmer
Clive James
At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James
The Metropolitan Critic
Clive James
The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
Jeremy Seal
Small Wars, Far Away Places
Michael Burleigh
A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar
Harvest
Jim Crace
Churchill's First War
Con Coughlin
Simply the Best Baby Name Book
Stuart Wilson
Going to the Wars
Max Hastings
Even As We Speak
Clive James