The History Press

The Auschwitz Kommandant is the story of the author's search for the truth about her father, a memoir of her journey of discovery into one of the bleakest periods in European history. Barbara U. Cherish's upbringing under the Nazi regime was one of relative wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and...

'The author's painstaking research has unearthed a large number of fascinating stories which have never previously been told. This is a book to dip into with great interest' The Association of Jewish Refugees Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in...

Linda Stratmann traces the social, medical and criminal history of chloroform, from early medical practices to create oblivion through the discovery of chloroform and its discovery, its use and misuse in the 19th century, to the present....

Was Winston Churchill fit to rule? Why was Marie Antoinette's wedding night a let down? What really cost Napoleon his victory at Waterloo? What killed Jane Austen? The intriguing nature of Jane Austen's demise is just one of a series of sometimes famous and often bizarre stories featured in What Killed Jane Austen? Why did Mary Tudor have...

From almost the time when man first discovered the pleasures of sin, he has also experienced the torments of the Pox. Drawing on references from art and literature, stories of famous sufferers and medical documents, this book presents the history of syphilis and gonorrhoea, and their treatment, from the Renaissance to the antibiotic age....

Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic RevolutionA history of penicillin and the man who invented it, Alexander Fleming....