Europas historia

Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the …

I sin bästsäljare – nu som pocket – tar Martin Kragh ett helhetsgrepp om Vladimir Putin och den ryska historien: från Tsarrysslands fall till Sovjetunionens upplösning och det …

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph …

Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of …

Vinnare av det Facklitterära Augustpriset 2018Först kom kylan. Sedan värmen och torkan. Två år i rad slog skörden fel. Folk dog. Till en början barn och åldringar. Därefter även de …

With a new introduction, this collection of Slavic tales is based on the oral storytelling traditions of the peoples of Eastern Europe, from the Polish and the Slovaks to the …

Ingen svensk har utövat så mycket makt under så lång tid som Axel Oxenstierna. Han blev rikskansler på nyåret 1612 och behöll denna post till sin död den 28 augusti 1654. Få har …

'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments …

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday …

'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant …