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Presents a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected…

Kniha 9780241674956 Short History of British Architecture Simon Jenkins…

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

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

Kniha 9780241456996 Command Lawrence Freedman…

Kniha 9780241624517 Underground Empire Henry Farrell,Abraham Newman…

Kniha 9780425286524 Alexander The Great Anthony Everitt…

Kniha 9780241355565 Iron and Blood Peter H. Wilson…

Kniha 9780241185704 Mussolini's War John Gooch…

Kniha 9780241454992 History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3 John Romer…

Kniha 9783791355948 Yayoi Kusama EDITED BY MIKA YOSHITAKE…

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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…

Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or…

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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,…

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Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot…

Follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. This title presents a critique of inequality between…

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

Mesopotamia, AD 260. Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid…

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Offers an account of the war in former Yugoslavia and contains material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and…

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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…

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell…

Kniha 9780141037141 World War Two Norman Stone…

Tells the story of the Tibetan people. This title offers an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. It presents a quest for…

When the young Harold Transome returns to England with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his…

Describes the key members of Stalin's court: Beria, Malenkov, Zhukov, Molotov and Khruschchev.…

A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding…

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

Life in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. The author tells the story of the war…

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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…

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Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police investigation is botched; as war…

Unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. This book considers Judaeo-Christian…

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

In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a…

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The biography of one of the most remarkable and memorable of the Medieval kings of Norway.…

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

AD256 - the spectre of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervour have spread through…

The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles.…

Produkt Victory Against Japan 1944-1945: A Ladybird Expert Book zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Features such poems as "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Strange Meeting", "Requiem", "The Silent One", "Break of Day in the…

Contains three stories from Sallust: "Catiline's War" - tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc; "The Jugurthine War" - describes…

The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous…

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Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate…

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A selection of writings including a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a…