• Rok vydání 2024

\nThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than…

The Prophet Muhammad was the founder of a world empire and a new civilisation - this is his story.…

A concise yet comprehensive history - social, cultural and natural - including regional information for travellers to the…

Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their…

• Čeština

Another highly entertaining trawl through the byways of English history by the author of The Strange Laws of Old England.…

* A wonderful piece of swashbuckling historical biography which recalls the best and the worst of the British Imperial…

A new biography of the last tsar, Nicholas II, who was overthrown in 1917 and killed, along with his family, on 17 July…

The true story of Florence Nightingale's life, focusing on her real legacy: how she put a sanitary disaster in her wartime…

* A classic history of Britons' experiences of India in the last days of the Raj.…

The diary of a young Brazilian girl at the end of the nineteenth century. Introduced and translated by Elizabeth Bishop, one…

\nA landmark book that charts humanity\'s changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the 21st…

• Rok vydání 2017

Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and…

\nUKRAINE The Forging of a Nation explores Ukraine\'s dramatic past and its place as a nation in our world today, including…

* Sensational, revealing account of the death of Marilyn Monroe - one of the hitherto unresolved mysteries of the century.…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nPart biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from a New York…

A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as \'barbarians\'. Kershaw…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nNew York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato…

Michael Stipe is one of the most instantly recognisable faces in rock. This biography explores his nomadic early years as…

• Rok vydání 2019

An alternative to the Blue Plaque Guide that drags the scheme into the twenty-first century by showing where notable women…

The remarkable story of Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts, two hugely influential figures, who, though they met each other…

A concise and very readable history of what we know today as Italy, from prehistory right up to the present day.…

A history of the cult of the ancient Druids, exploring who they really were and what role they played in the Celtic world.…

• Rok vydání 1947

\nYoung Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth\'s…

The question 'what if?' has always fascinated historians. Richard J. Evans imagines what could have been, and how alternate…

An entertaining tour of the wilder shores of the British legal system…

\nThis \"glorious\" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron…

Lance Corporal Neville \'Timber\' Wood was among the last British soldiers to be evacuated from Dunkirk, he served in North…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually unknown.\n…

• Rok vydání 1942

\nA gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain\'s bleakest hour, by the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its…

\nA highly readable cultural history of queer women\'s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six…

\nThe moving story of the unlikely friendship that developed between then 25 year old archaeologist John Henry Phillips and…

\nNew York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato…

• Čeština

A superbly concise and clear, single-volume account of the English Civil Wars.…

* An accessible, involving and moving account of the Balkan war criminals…

An exciting overview of the best moments in basketball history from the #1 sports series for kids.…

*A great historian tells the inside story of how history is recorded.…

\nTake a walk through the streets of Paris in this comprehensive history of the French capital.\n…

The last pagans or the first modern Europeans? A consice history of the Vikings…

A colourful and brilliantly researched study of closet homosexuality in twentieth-century British politics.…

* Entertaining, popular but also serious account of pirates and pirate life by the acknowledged expert on the subject.…

Bestselling author Sally Fallon Morell debunks Paleo diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really…

The inspirational stories of the diverse and courageous acts of men and women awarded the Victoria Cross and George Cross.…

\nGuy de la Bedoyere\'s new book is a history of a key period in ancient Egypt\'s astonishing history that tears away the…

A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in…

\nIncluding new evidence from key figures, Love and Deception is the result of 20 years of research into one of the Cold…

\nA look inside the hidden world of London\'s private members\' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. If…

\nFrom the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning the…