Drawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives, Atomic presents a brilliant new account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon.

A moving and informative graphic guide to Holocaust.

The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission.

Compact INTRODUCING guide to Christianity's central figure.

Statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. Exploring the history, mathematics, philosophy and practical use of statistics, this book traces the rise of statistics from the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Chinese, to the censuses of Romans and the Greeks, and the modern emergence of the term itself in Europe.

New for Icon's Hot Science series - a startling insight into the data that runs our lives.

A journey through the history and science of epidemics and pandemics - from measles to coronavirus.

The popular science equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are?