• Rok vydání 2022

Brings together the research and imaginative engagement to bring us as close as we can hope to get to the tumultuous…

• Rok vydání 2022

Tells the story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the…

At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided…

Explores the variety, secret history and hidden importance of birds around the world. Revealing everything from why birds…

Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird…

• Rok vydání 1999

\nAutobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, celebrated Italian goldsmith (1500-1571), in which Cellini tells the story of his life…

• Rok vydání 2022

In 1985 the author, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, travelled 100,000 miles…

Tells the story of Rio De Janeiro through the everyday lives of its people: gangsters and police, activists, politicians and…

Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand…

Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it…

The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture, and death…

Explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new…

Introducing the streets of London, this title traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and…

• Rok vydání 1940

In the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a…

• Rok vydání 2023

• Rok vydání 2022

Ross Kemp, whose dad was a copper and taught him right from wrong, decided to infiltrate these secret underworld…

Recreates the panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the political upheavals…

• Rok vydání 1917

At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been…

Provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future. This book is drawn from research and exploring…

The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in…

Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by…

• Rok vydání 2022

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity.…

• Rok vydání 2021

A collection of 850 letters of the author to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential…