New History Books for June 2025
From tanks to planes, the Indian Empire to the stars
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Unknown #3: Did Napoleon Really Destroy the Sphinx with Jane Doe
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Unknown #2: Gerardus Mercator and the Land that Never Was with John Doe
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Unknown #1: Matisse's Missing Masterpieces with Sophie Haydock
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D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four
Nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images
The Eiffel Tower: The Beauty and the Terror (1888)
The Parisian skyline was changing in a strange and stirring way in July 1888 when Gustave Eiffel led a tour of his majestic new tower
A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian
We look back at the life of the 'greatest historical novelist of all time'
The Disturbing Visions of Francis Galton
Gavin Evans, the author of 'White Supremacy' traces a racist ideology to its source
Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945
On 23 February 1945, one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima
Excerpt: Monsieur Auguste Gaudron and his Fabulous Balloon
A rich historical novel based on the true story of Louisa Maud Evans, a fourteen-year-old girl whose demise – tumbling 8,000 feet into the Bristol Channel – captured the imagination of the city…
Excerpt: The Rise of Tescobethan Sheds
A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
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The Mysterious Miss Charlesworth
Mark Bridgeman explores the story of one of Britain's great swindlers
Alexander Pushkin and the City of Death and Beauty
Sinclair McKay explores the significance of one of Russia's great poet's death to the people of Saint Petersburg
Features
The Mysterious Miss Charlesworth
Mark Bridgeman explores the story of one of Britain's great swindlers
D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four
Nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images
Travel in Old Japan
Japan in the Age of the Shoguns was a dynamic place, full of colour, energy and movement. Here Lesley Downer takes us for a trip on its old roads
Interviews
Green Ink with Stephen May
In his compelling new novel Stephen May engages with one of the great mysteries in British political history
How to Make a Monster with Surekha Davies
Surekha Davies's new book sweeps back through human history in a quest to find the monsters and tell us what they mean
Josef Mengele the Elusive Nazi with Betina Anton
Betina Anton explains how one of the most infamous Nazis remained at large for decades after the end of the Second World War
The Day President Kennedy Didn't Die with Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer tells us about a failed assassination attempt that very nearly altered the course of history
Snapshot
A Montana Rancher, 1939
Louis D. Hall explores the history behind one of Arthur Rothstein's finest photographs