Situated in an area roughly corresponding to Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations. Yet, over 7,000…

After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Fitztroy Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book…

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

Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, he was befriended and favoured by Henry…

Traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years…

Traces Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades,…

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Presents a critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledges the reforms…

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

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

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One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his…

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

When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left…

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

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history,…

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A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series…

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Produkt Political History of the World - Holslag, Jonathan zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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Brought to you by Penguin. The story of the ancient world’s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it.…

Recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68.…

Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded…

They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This…

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

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

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The incredible story of one man's obsession to find and protect the world's largest flowers As a child, Chris Thorogood…

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

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Tells the narrative of the Second World War.…

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Flawless, Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital od výrobce Penguin Putnam Inc.…

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• Rok vydání 1984

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the…

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'By the Power of Eternal Heaven; By the Protection of the Majestic Imperial Fortune.' Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving…

An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and…

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This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".…

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

• 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…

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Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor…

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage…

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

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Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking…

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• Rok vydání 2015
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Knížka nabízí poutavý pohled do života veterinárního lékaře, jehož každodenní realita je plná emocí, výzev a nečekaných…

• Počet stran 464
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The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London In the 1940s, it was…

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

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will…

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

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• Rok vydání 1991

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.…