Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War.

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day

The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history

Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.

'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times The Allied victory in 1945 - though comprehensive - was far from inevitable.

A stunningly evocative portrait of Hitler's Germany through the people of a single village.