• Rok vydání 2021

Offers a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians,…

• Rok vydání 2026

• Rok vydání 2021

Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatred…

• Rok vydání 2021

Tells the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion.…

Skirting the line between recipe-book, memoir, history and philosophy, this collection of dishes, experiences, reflections,…

A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in…

A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics…

Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and…

At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass…

Hannibal, one of the most compelling personalities of the ancient world, inflicted a tremendous defeat on the Romans at…

• Rok vydání 2026

• Rok vydání 2026

• Rok vydání 2022

• Rok vydání 2022

• Rok vydání 2025

More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of…

The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. This title…

• Rok vydání 1789

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

Presents history of the monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. Taking into account research findings about the building of…

Presents an evocative version of the Arthurian legend. This book describes Arthur's ascendancy to the throne after claiming…

During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across globe…

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions;…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2016

• Rok vydání 2022

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

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great…

Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539 594) is a…

Produkt Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery - Kennedy, Paul zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Threatened from…

Offers an account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. This book reveals the…

Describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past…

Tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.…

From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the…