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

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• Rok vydání 2011

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

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

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• Rok vydání 2023
• Čeština

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

• Rok vydání 2003

Lively and readable introduction to a vast area of world history. B/w illus and maps. Kniha 9781841197913 Brief History of…

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western…

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• 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…

WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history''s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from…

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

• Rok vydání 2013
• Angličtina

In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on,…

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• Rok vydání 2008

The forgotten origins and story of the leading power of Europe in the Dark Ages…

• Rok vydání 2021

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

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

• Rok vydání 2024

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

• Rok vydání 2002

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the…

The haunting story of the destruction of a magnificent civilisation…

• Rok vydání 2011

The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical…

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The magnum opus of the First World War, from the outstanding historian at the King's College Department of War Studies.…

• 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…

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFrom the inimitable Rabih Alameddine - National Book Award finalist and winner of the…

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• Rok vydání 2016

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives,…

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

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…

An insider account of the shadowy world of private military contracting.…

• Rok vydání 2008

With 2008 being the 90th anniversary of World War I and the BBC doing a documentary on Vera Brittian in November, this has…

Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was…

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

\nGuy de la Bedoyere\'s gripping narrative history gives a sense of what it was like to be a soldier in the army that…

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• Rok vydání 2014

A raw and gripping account of the Second World War and the men and the Machines who beat Hitler…

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

• Rok vydání 1997
• Čeština

A female Robin Hood, a modern day Count of Monte Cristo - Phoolan Devi, the notorious Bandit Queen of India, has become a…

Retelling the most spectacular cock-ups in military history, this graphic account has a great deal to say about the…

* A fascinating book about an otherwise neglected aspect of the Second World War…

• Rok vydání 2002

A revised and updated account of the Ripper killings. Kniha 9781841193977 Complete History of Jack the Ripper | Philip…

• Rok vydání 2018

A "fascinating, beautifully readable, compulsively readable book" (Douglas Preston) that tells the real-life story of the…

• Rok vydání 2012

The definitive history of the SS by an acclaimed expert -- out now in paperback Kniha 9780349117522 SS: A New History |…

Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is a lively, revelatory and gloriously well-written memoir of Dave Haslam's life and work in…

A challenging and informative book that argues that European history cannot be told in its entirety by only including great…

The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana…

• Rok vydání 2019

An entertaining and in-depth biography, the first of its kind, of philanthropist and White House Rose Garden designer Bunny…

From one of the country's foremost experts on military history, an insider view of some of the greatest intelligence…

* 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…