History & Transport

Looking for the best history books? Or perhaps some travel-related tales? Our brilliant range of best-selling history and travel books feature globetrotting guides, and interesting accounts of yesteryear and beyond.
Paris '44
Patrick Bishop

'Extraordinary' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES • ‘An epic thriller . . . droll, moving, with a cinematic eye and not a boring line in it' OBSERVER • ‘Fascinating . . . gripping' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH •...

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The Forgers
Roger Moorhouse

**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two. ...

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A Pipeline Runs Through It
Keith Fisher

'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for...

Essential reading' Michael...

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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony Bale

‘Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you’ve never seen it before’ Ian Mortimer‘A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times’ Jerry Brotton'Wisdom fills the pages of this...

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Clay
Jennifer Lucy Allan

'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums.

Every time we make something with clay, we engage with the timelines that...

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