History
Events and people that shaped the world. These books connect historical stories with broader contexts and perspectives on the past.
Book summaries
56Little Book of Chanel
Emma Baxter-Wright
Little Book of Prada
Laia Farran Graves
The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
Walls
David Frye
Genome
Matt Ridley
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Guns at Last Light
Rick Atkinson
The Evolution of Everything
Matt Ridley
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
Dead Wake
Erik Larson
Arabs
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Size
Vaclav Smil
Invention and Innovation
Vaclav Smil
Cockroaches and tanks
Tino Laine
Black Earth
Timothy Snyder
The lost Land
Filip J. Scherf
On Freedom
Timothy Snyder
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum
The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
Worth Dying for
Tim Marshall