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A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN''S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN…

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…

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• Rok vydání 1997

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

Peace-broker, statesman, charismatic ruler and master of realpolitik, Hussein of Jordan was one of the dominant figures in…

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• Rok vydání 2005

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

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

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' This title takes Jefferson's phrase…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2021

Nineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a…

• Počet stran 720
• Rok vydání 2005

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

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• Rok vydání 2007

A narrative history of Roman Britain. From the rebellious chiefs and druids who led native British resistance, to the…

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

• Rok vydání 2012

Presents the author as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also…

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

• Rok vydání 2012

"1914-1918", David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of…

\nNefertiti disappeared from the royal family. No record survives to detail her death, and to this day her end remains an…

Aims to provide a definitive history of global football.…

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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…

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'A necessary book - and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the…

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

• Rok vydání 2013

A single-volume biography of John F Kennedy that reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way…

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

• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2025

Against the Machine, On the Unmaking of Humanity od výrobce Penguin Books Ltd.…

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

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile…

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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…

The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released Rock Around the Clock,…

• Rok vydání 2024

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist . . . He points the…

• Rok vydání 2024

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the…

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• Rok vydání 2024

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To…

A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approaches to analysis of the chick…

Why has warfare always been part of the human story? From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent…

PRE-ORDER THE FASCINATING AND UNEXPECTED STORY OF THE ICONIC HARRIER JUMP JET, AND THE BRITISH ENGINEER WHO BUILT ITVictory…

A thrilling illustrated journey through the history of video games and what they really mean to us Pac-Man. Mario.…

Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the second and third volumes were originally published in…

Edward Gibbon''s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Imagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs. You are not…

• Rok vydání 2019

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

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

Using colourful graphics, this book traces the history of urban transport systems, including rare and historic maps,…