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

In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later,…

• Rok vydání 2013

Winner of the Wolfson Prize 2013 and Herald Books of the Year 2014, this book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and…

• Rok vydání 1789

Charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789,…

• Rok vydání 2019

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the…

• Rok vydání 2020

A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile story from what happened, and the…

• Rok vydání 1997

A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to…

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• Rok vydání 1996

The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia,…

• Rok vydání 2019

Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a…

Offers an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor. This book provides a view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and…

Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of…

• Rok vydání 2022

• Čeština

Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released…

• Rok vydání 1857

Presents the history of the Indian uprising of 1857.…

• Čeština

The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's…

Tells the story of contemporary Ireland, from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the…

• Čeština

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second…

• Rok vydání 2005

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily,…

• Čeština

The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This book…

• Rok vydání 2012

Presents the author as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also…

• Čeština

Explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United…

Tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost…

• Rok vydání 2019

A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile story from what happened, and the…

• Čeština

The Domesday Book was described by David Hume as the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation. This text…