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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…

Offers a translation of one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome. This title recounts the major historical events from…

Kniha 9780141010205 What is History? E. H. Carr…

Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve…

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? What if Nazi Germany had…

Tells the story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European…

Kniha 9780141396767 Selected Writings Thomas Carlyle…

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,'…

Celebrates Wales and things Welsh. This study it reflects the bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and…

The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they…

Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, the author argues provocatively that Hitler did not set out…

"The Parallel Lives of Plutarch" are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers…

Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, this book chronologically…

This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the…

Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it…

A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of…

India is the biggest democracy on earth, a country of dynamic change, huge divisions and countless identities. Is there any…

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

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The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in…

The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to…

In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million…

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'.…

An online travel journal that presents the author's observations and taglines that celebrate the special details of each…

Provides an eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow…

Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary…

Presents a description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the…

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the…

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The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into…

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise…

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The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and…

From the 13th century, these seven stories feature both the pastoral society of Iceland and the royal courts of Norway and…

Can the world be governed by agreement rather than conflict? In 1945 the world's powerful nation states came together to…

Presents an account of the Atlantic slave trade which helps us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful…

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From Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first steps on the moon, discover the 100 moments that defined…

Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by…

The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of…

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HRH King Abdullah was schooled in America and at Sandhurst and was heading for a life as a career soldier, when his father…

Presents the author's personal letters that address a range of topics, from an account of his uncle's death in the eruption…

Offers the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the…

Written when the author was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester,…

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages.…

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In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger,…

This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's…

The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most abundant and efficient firearm on earth. It is so light it can be used by children.…