A history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, this work surveys a millennium of warfare…

A thrilling history of the dramatic siege of Acre in 1291, the bloody climax to the two hundred years of the Holy Land…

A vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel's first decades of statehood…

• Rok vydání 2021

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis…

The history of Britain\'s complex relationship with Europe, untangled…

• Rok vydání 2025

An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge \"A…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day\n…

Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship.…

An illuminating new biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art…

Offering an account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide, this book includes a preface that takes the story up to 2008…

An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist…

• Rok vydání 1891

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as…

A study of the life and reign of Henry VII. S.B. Chrimes explores the circumstances surrounding Henry's acquisition of the…

This title paints a portrait of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror. The author vividly describes Henry's life and reign…

A biography of Richard II. It offers a radical reinterpretation of a complex king whose reign was characterized by a mixture…

\nThe story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England\'s most distinguished man of letters\n…

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\nA major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the…

\nA vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable…

\nA thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines\n…

An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second…

• Rok vydání 1912

In 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. This…

• Čeština

Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, the author…

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This…

In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of…

Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey.…

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England…

This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety…

• Rok vydání 2019

An examination of the rise of Islam, the life of Muhammad, and the Islamic principles of faith. Jonathan Bloom and Sheila…

• Rok vydání 2020

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A new look at the legacy of WWI, a war fought for peace yet followed by a century of devastating violence…

• Angličtina

The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death…

From 1450 to 1680, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes were occuring in Southeast…

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city…

A comparative history devoted to the revolutionary tradition in the West as it evolved over many centuries and reached its…

Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences, this book is a reminder that the…