Focuses on all-round exam practice and preparation to ensure every student gets the best possible grade.

Published between 1776 and 1788, this text is acknowledged as a masterpiece of English historical writing. Covering the history of Europe from the 2nd-century AD, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this edition includes footnotes, explanatory comments, and a precis of the chapters not included.

This is the story of the Orkneymen of Norwegian extraction who established an Earldom of Norway in the Northern Scottish Isles a thousand years ago, and whose descendants held sway over the Hebrides and Northern Mainland of Scotland for several centuries.

Part of the Penguin Atlas of World History series, which covers events from the French Revolution onwards, this second volume includes events ranging from the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

The fully illustrated companion to Adam Hart-Davis's popular BBC series 'What the Victorians Did For Us'

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends.

Gives a textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the woman's point of view. This book establishes the interaction of the private and public, and demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy.

Presents an account of historical research into the period, including interpretations relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis. This book presents an examination of issues surrounding the origins of the Cold War and its escalation into a global power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. This book presents the story of WWI in the words of those who experienced it.

A biography of Adolf Hitler that begins with European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker. It addresses the questions about the nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

Including 'mini-sections', this book also contains easy recall questions to test your progress; exam-style questions on each topic; a full practice exam; detailed worked answers with hints; and a mark scheme.

To understand what Britain has become we need to know what it has been. The first volume in this history tells the story of Britain from the time of the earliest settlements, discovered in the Orkneys, to the death of Queen Elizabeth I. Each chapter focuses on a major theme.

This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.

A modern world history textbook. It covers the core content of the major GCSE specifications through explanation and selected course material. There are questions, activities and focus tasks throughout. This second edition meets the requirements of the revised specifications.

Tailored to the OCR GCSE History B: Modern World specification, this book focuses on exam preparation. It covers various options of the specification.

Edexcels own resources for the new Edexcel GCSE History A: The Making of the Modern World

Discusses Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his defeat of Persia and campaigns through Egypt and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path. This title presents an objective portrait of a man of boundless ambition, who was exposed to the temptations of power.