Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother
by Simon Schama

'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden...

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
by Roger Moorhouse

* Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany. It was the backdrop for the most lavish of Nazi ceremonies, the venue for Albert Speer's grandiose ...

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
by Paul Bloom

In How Pleasure Works, the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human beh...

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
by Nathaniel Philbrick

'The whites want war and we will give it to them.' Sitting Bull* This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of un...

The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
by Frank McLynn

* Often described as 'the forgotten war', the Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two. It has...

Death to the Dictator!: Witnessing Iran's election and the Crippling of the Islamic Republic
by Afsaneh Moqadam

For much of the world, Iran's 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. As citizens took to the streets in their millio...

Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940
by Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang

* From May to September 1940, during a period that saw some of the most dramatic events of the war - the evacuation from Dunkirk, the Battle of Britai...

The Price Of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
by Oren Harman

Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time, human beings have contemplated the mysteries of altruism - but it was Darwi...

Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
by Nick Bunker

* At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the Northern Hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Great Lakes, the com...

The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War
by Ben Shephard

* Surprisingly early in the Second World War - long before an Allied victory was assured - people began to plan for its aftermath. They were haunted b...