History Today Ebooks

All of our ebooks are available to buy in the Amazon Kindle store

They are designed to work with the Kindle, and are also available on iPhone, iPad, PC, Android and Windows Phone; simply download the appropriate Kindle App for your device.

Last Orders: A Social History Of Drinking In this informative, entertaining and not-at-all sobering look at the social history of booze, you’ll read about the irresistible rise of gin in Georgian Britain, why wine supped in the Middle Ages would have horrified the modern palate and how women carved out their own space in the saloons of America. Buy from the Amazon store: United Kingdom | USA | France | Deutschsland | Italia | España
China And The West: From The Ming To Mao There is a perception in the West that the emergence of China as a superpower is something new. It is not. China has been a superpower in abeyance since its opening to the West in the 17th century. This book sheds light on that shared history. Buy from the Amazon store: United Kingdom | USA | France | Deutschsland | Italia | España
To Protect And Serve? A History of the Police Force This book aims to provide a thorough historical understanding of how police forces the world over emerged, why they evolved into the entities they are today, and what society might expect from the police in the years to come. Buy from the Amazon store: United Kingdom | USA | France | Deutschsland | Italia | España
After The Cold War: The Collapse Of Communism And Its Impact On Europe Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall , this compact and insightful book considers the impact on Russia and its former satellite states in the two decades since, and the wider changes wrought across Europe by the demise of the Soviet Union. Buy from the Amazon store: United Kingdom | USA | France | Deutschland | Italia | España
A Portrait of Britain: 2,000 Years In The Life Of A Small Island This authoritative book takes a broad look at British history over the past two millennia, stretching from AD1 to the dawn of the 20th century, and taking in the Roman invasions, the Norman Yoke, the Black Death, the Tudors and the rise and fall of the British Empire. Buy from the Amazon store: United Kingdom | USA | France | Deutschland | Italia | España