International History

An autobiographical novel by a survivor of the Holocaust. The story takes place in three countries - Hungary, Austria and Germany - during the years of Nazi rule. It expresses the meeting between Holocaust and humour.

A riveting history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continent

A complete history of this country's love affair with the radio. Traces radio's development from first use to pioneering broadcasts of the BBC, it's role in the Second World War and how it has survived competition from modern technology. 2020 is the centenary of the first radio. broadcast.

The true story of a German soldier's escape from a Siberian prison camp following World War II, and his struggle for survival during an 8000-mile journey to freedom across some of the most treacherous and inhospitable conditions on earth.

A superb collection of graphic contemporary images from Allied and German sources; the majority unpublished. The book covers the brutality and horror of Belsen and is a lesson that mankind must never forget.

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.

'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy - scrutinising and animated in equal measure' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.