History and Current Events

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Updated June 10, 2025
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the...
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
In his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories - our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking - both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell - as well...
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
Matthew Gabriele
Paper Book
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones--the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe By...
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back
Marc J. Dunkelman
Paper Book
A provocative exploration about the architecture of power, the forces that stifle us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in democratically elected government--"the best book to date on the biggest political issue that nobody is talking about" (Matthew Yglesias) ...
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
William Dalrymple
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas...
Secret History of the Five Eyes
Richard Kerbaj
Paper Book
The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.
War
Bob Woodward
Paper Book
Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024 Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency.
Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
James Holland
Paper Book
'It should become a standard work on this campaign' Telegraph 'James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign' John C. McManus 'A heart-pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome... This is history at its finest' James M...
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
Toby Wilkinson
Paper Book
'A truly splendid read, richly detailed and powered by an unfailing gift for storytelling' John Guy 'Superb and gripping' Simon Sebag Montefiore A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great...
The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021
Angela Merkel
For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she reflects on her life in two...

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