Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances…

• Rok vydání 2017

*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** `A gripping story…

On 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in…

• Rok vydání 2017

On 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in…

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend…

Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and…

• Rok vydání 2021

Based on over 120 hours of uncovered video and audio tape, this title tells the story of the birth of the SAS in the words…

Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to find that I had landed directly in front of the muzzle of a German…

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage…

The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most…

Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism encourages the belief that, through its faith and practices, spiritual and material blessings…

A searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War and a shocking portrayal of what might have been.…

In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. By skilful use of the…

Drawing upon the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum's sound archive, which contains thousands of interviews with both…

The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history.…

The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics.…

• Rok vydání 2017

This is a smart, accessible, authoritative biography of one of the most dynamic figures in European history. Lyndal Roper…

A book that becomes more and more interesting as the pages turn. L'Equipe…

Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997,…

• Čeština

Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those…

The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten…

In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment…

Soldiers were forbidden from keeping a diary so Harry wrote his in secret, recording the horrendous conditions and constant…

From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of…

Its first day, July 1st 1916 - on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead - is the bloodiest day…

• Rok vydání 2012

[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book... Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that…

• Rok vydání 1984

From the widely debated roots of punk in the late-Sixties through to the fallout of the post-punk period in 1984, and the…

Reflecting both the interlocked web of politics, economics, and academics, as well as the evolving contours of Japan's…

• Rok vydání 2009

Philip Davies's first bestselling book Lost London, 1870–1945, published in 2009, mesmerised readers with the wealth of…

• Čeština

The first critical examination of magical techniques and the practice of the magician in Ancient Egypt , revealing their…