Presents an account of the Russian revolution. This book describes the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and…

'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the…

Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the…

Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'A masterpiece of reportage'…

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First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and…

This is the story of the Orkneymen of Norwegian extraction who established an Earldom of Norway in the Northern Scottish…

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Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by…

Tells the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. This title features…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant…

A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the…

A chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, Charlemagne. It describes his personal life,…

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Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger…

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The fourth edition of this book which is highly recommended for students, teachers and technicians. Updated to cover all the…

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and…

Tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange…

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First new English translation since 1959 by acclaimed translator Robin Buss.…

Offers an introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.…

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his…

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Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we…

'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams'Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades…

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Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusadesremains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed…

Tells the story of darkest episode in Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, greatest warrior-champion of Greeks, and his…

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One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the…

Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher: each of these leaders…

Produkt Short History of London zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the…

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This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag MontefioreThe definitive history of…

Produkt Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured…

Focuses on the beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed…

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The first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new…

This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their…

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WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and…

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a…

Deals with the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the…