• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2020

A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any…

* A side-splitting story of growing up different in the Old South.…

Reissued with a new introduction by Owen Jones, Primitive Rebels is the perfect guide to the revolutions that shaped western…

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

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.…

The rise and fall of Roman Britain, how they lived and what they left behind.…

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

• Počet stran 384
• Rok vydání 2010

A superb insight into the history of the Samurai…

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

With the recent success of "Rome" on BBC2, no one will look at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same…

• Počet stran 304
• Rok vydání 2002

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

How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust - through marriage to a Nazi officer.…

• Čeština

An indispensable companion for the modern traveller who wishes to discover and relive the drama, history and life of Naples,…

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

The ideas, people and inventions that built the modern world…

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

\nHumans are the most migratory species of all land mammals. Migrants cuts through the toxic debates about refugees versus…

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

\nComplete with illustrations, \'Assholes\' by Twitter legend James Felton presents to you the worst people who\'ve walked…

• Rok vydání 1982

* 'This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey' Dervla Murphy, THE IRISH TIMES…

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

\nThis succinct history of Germany will take you on an incredible journey through time spanning from the 1500s to the…

This fully updated edition is recognised as the most comprehensive history of the Knights Templar…

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.…

* 'I devoured this in a few hours - a powerful book of heartbreaking yet flamboyant reportage from a forgotten hell' Simon…

The fascinating and heartwarming true story of two young children evacuated from Newcastle to the remote Lake District…

* First published in 1986 as WINTER IN THE MORNING, this edition has been updated and expanded by the author. *'A profound…

\nA concise complete history of British monarchy, from its pre-Roman origins to the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II.\n…

• Čeština

* A personal story of the Second World War brought to life against the backdrop of the Black Watch - Scotland's best-known…

The extraordinary story of John Kirk, the Scottish botanist who single-handedly ended the East African slave trade.…

An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians.…

• Rok vydání 2018

Short, snappy and inspiring, these mini biographies celebrate women who headed out into the world determined to make a…

An invaluable addition to the highly regarded Brief History series.…

Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace'. But in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western…

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

• Počet stran 272
• Rok vydání 2023
• Čeština

A concise history of the Pacific, which emphasises the very different physical and human environments both of the four…

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

• Počet stran 304
• Rok vydání 2002

The story of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was…

\nA brilliantly concise history of London, with a distinctive perspective focusing on the city in its national and, more…

'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have…

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

• Rok vydání 2021

\nWith a foreword by William Boyd, Checkpoint Charlie is a vivid and poignant exploration of the history surrounding the…

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

\nA comprehensive yet concise history of the United States of America, from the 1500s to the present day.\n…

* From the author of the bestselling BOOKSELLER OF KABUL, 101 DAYS is a fascinating and insightful account of the Iraq war.…

• Rok vydání 2024

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

Accessible and exciting narrative history of the final 100 years of the Roman Republic. Over 17,000 copies of the hardback…

\nAn insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawm\'s writing on the subject of nationalism.\n…