Murderers who struck out for personal gain, or to take control of empires.Seducers who used deceit between the sheets to fool their targets.Spies who smuggled secrets to the opposing power either for money or because of ideology.History is filled with traitors, from medieval pretenders to thrones to Nazi sympathisers, legends of antiquity to fables of the Old Testament — and we've long been darkly fascinated by the machinations behind their treachery.In this...

Murderers who struck out for personal gain, or to take control of empires.Seducers who used deceit between the sheets to fool their targets.Spies who smuggled secrets to the opposing power either for money or because of ideology.History is filled with traitors, from medieval pretenders to thrones to Nazi sympathisers, legends of antiquity to fables of the Old Testament — and we've long been darkly fascinated by the machinations behind their treachery.In this...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe remarkable story of the real 'Dad's Army' in wartime Britain, from the bestselling historian of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park'Impeccably researched and deliciously entertaining, Dad's Army shines a bright searchlight on to an organization dismissed for far too long as humorously incompetent' Giles Milton, author of The Stalin AffairWith the threa...

The incredible story of the unsung heroes whose scientific discoveries helped defeat the Nazis, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Dad’s ArmyChurchill's Boffins were a fascinating group of intellectuals who harnessed the latest scientific advancements – including their own innovations – to develop sometimes quirky but highly effective weapons in the fight against Hitler.In this lively, character-driven history, Sunday Times

Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in southern England all the way to Arisaig in northern Scotland, in an unbelievable effort to defeat the Nazis and win the Second World War .From the outset of the war, most of Britain felt like a mystery even to those who lived there. All road and railway signs were removed up and down the country to thwart potential enemy spies. An invisible web of cu...

**The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Seco...

"Bring[s] alive the all-engulfing drama of 1940, as Hitler's Luftwaffe attempted to establish air superiority over England. . . . Poetry and sharp politics." — The TimesDuring the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler's armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, thus ensuring the country's safety from invasion. The men and women of Fighter Command worked tirelessly in air b...

Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, renowned author Sinclair McKay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World War.Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking the impenetrable Enigma codes and giving the Allies an invaluable insight directly into the Nazi war machine, moved on to GCHQ. This was the British governm...

An illustrated history of the English manor house and grounds that were home to the famous World War II codebreakers.The huge success of Sinclair's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park—a quarter of a million copies sold to date—has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engrossing museum of wartime codebreaking. Aurum is publishing the first comprehensive i...

Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched.It was home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology – indeed, the birth of modern computi...

A chilling true crime story of a baffling boarding house murder in Victorian London and the stunning secrets revealed by the investigation.Someone must have known what happened to Matilda Hacker. For someone in that house had killed her. So how could the murderer prove so elusive?Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, No. 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable boarding house. But beneath this genteel Victorian London veneer lay mu...

This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life.From Bletchley Park codebreakers and Hollywood stars such as Charlie Chaplin, through writers as varied as H. G. Wells and P. G. Wodehouse, to the likes of Harold Wilson, Mahatma Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth II, these lesser-known interactions reveal glimpses of the man behind the legend....