1873

the first great depression and the making of the modern world

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity. On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across ...

Sand and steel

a new history of D-Day

In Sand and Steel, one of Britain's leading military historians draws on a decade of archival research and thousands of interviews to offer a panoramic new account of the Allied invasion of France. Peter Caddick-Adams masterfully recreates what it was like to wade out ...

Salamis

the greatest battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC