Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms…

Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.…

On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and…

Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest parts in the Second World War and the shaping of…

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War.…

Was the tragedy of the Second World War determined by Nazi Germany's terrifying power, or by its fatal weakness? This title…

Tells the story of contemporary Ireland, from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the…

McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas…

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second…

A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.…

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

In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its…

Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, this title traces the development of European identity…

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second…

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second…

The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in…

"A Short History of Byzantium" is renowned historian, and author of "A History of Venice", John Julius Norwich's classic…

All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and…

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased…

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Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second…

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The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This book…

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Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second…

Looks beyond the familiar exploits of the army and navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This book shows…

From early British colonisation to the Reagan years, this title captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a…

Horatio Nelson was a shrewd political operator who charmed and impressed political leaders. He was a difficult subordinate,…

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'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever…

Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of…

Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez.…

British and Irish had 'got used to' a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror. At the heart of that…

In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions,…

Tells the story of Venice of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a…

The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power -…

Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature,…

Details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn.…

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing…

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had one of the world's great navies to…

Explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of…

Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents…

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Explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United…

Tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost…

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Aims to provide a definitive history of global football.…

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the…

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What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? This…

The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and…

The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it 'A thrilling trip back to…

Produkt History of England in 25 Poems zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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The Domesday Book was described by David Hume as the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation. This text…

Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations…