From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age…

* A fascinating study of the spectacular explots if robbers and outlaws from Robin Hood to Jesse James.…

* Dazzling biograpy of James Dean (1931-1955), a movie actor who has become an icon.…

\nA highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed it\n…

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An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly…

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

\nThe biography of David Stirling, founder of the SAS.\n…

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In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the…

A fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The…

A wonderfully vivid history of Islam after Muhammad's death - and the sequel to Rogerson's acclaimed THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD…

This Dark Business tells the riveting story of the British government\'s determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any…

* Fresh, funny and impeccably researched, UNDERGROUND LONDON is 'alternative' history at its best - an illuminating glimpse…

* The bestselling and moving collection of letters to Vera Brittain from a lost generation - four young men who lost their…

'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.…

La Violencia exposes the bloody heart of Spain - from its origins in the ancient past to the Civil War and the current…

An accessible and comprehensive introduction to Classical history, myth and the ancient world.…

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\nA provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that…

* The definitive biography of one of rock's most extraordinary legends…

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Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by…

• Rok vydání 2008

Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale…

A great war has raged for years between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, the realm of the witches-until the…

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

* A story of love and survival amidst the great events of the twentieth century.…

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

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key black British individuals over many centuries, in…

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Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance…

\nA bumper book of puzzles celebrating every aspect of Britain and Britishness - perfect to relax, de-stress and unwind,…

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew…

* A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in…

* Classic essays on the history of radical protest.…

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

From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When…

* Rousing, brilliant, and hugely readable study of a millennium of one nation's free-thinking* Subtitle: Visionaries, Rebels…

What sort of a place is England? And who are the English? As the United Kingdom turns away from its European neighbours, and…

Presents the British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England,…

* The thirty years of English rule in France that followed the battle of Agincourt - by the acclaimed author of AGINCOURT:…

The history of Goodwood, England\'s greatest sporting estate…

* The definitive history of the SS by an acclaimed expert -- out now in paperback…

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

The New York Times and Sunday Times number one book that exposed the chaos of Donald Trump's White House to the world, now…

Fourteen vivid, first-hand accounts of a soldier's life in the Age of Napoleon…

\nThe idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the eighteenth century on…

*A comprehensive and accessible account of a crucial period in recent world history*Originally published as a tie-in to the…

Over 40 vivid, eyewitness accounts of the defining conflict of the second half of the twentieth century…

\nA concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..\n…

*The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills…