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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....

The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era....

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany....

From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their place in the world....

This broad and panoramic series, ripe with the telling detail on which history can turn, will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent framework....

Since its publication in 1960, this monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours....

A shocking true story of murder, extreme politics and the deep scars left by the Troubles in Ireland of the 1970s and the human consequences. A taut tale of murder, extreme politics, institutionalised violence and the deep scars left by such turmoil....

The official companion to the critically acclaimed Netflix drama The Crown....

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War....

Beginning with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded....

Spain is a sweeping and revealing portrait of Spain at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of the modern age....

Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East....

Spain has played a unique and essential role in Western civilization....

Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments....

In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person.....

The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts?....

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....

A witty approach to 2,000 years of French history from legendary popular historian John Julius Norwich....

This 12-lecture series uses the year 1492 to examine the events that made Spain a country and an empire....

An expert is offered a job analyzing and conserving a famed rare book. When she discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the book's ancient binding, she begins to unlock it's mysteries....

Eamonn McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule....

At the dawn of the last millennium, Europe was among the world's stagnant regions, with illiteracy, starvation, and disease the norm for almost everyone...

Few periods of history offer such captivating complexity as Europe in the long 19th century between 1789 and 1914....

One man's struggle with memory and prejudice on the way to recovering his past....

Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what we thought we knew about the Celts has been radically transformed....

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: one of the most famous engineers the United Kingdom has ever produced. He put his stamp on his country in the most visible way possible: through the construction of bridges and tunnels that stand to this day....

The Middle Ages harshly tested every aspect of human perseverance, imagination, and survival....