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

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would…

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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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A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of some $6…

After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk took up the cudgels by…

Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the surviving…

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Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.…

Presents the major figures the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The Great Llewellyn II, Prince of Wales.…

British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual…

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

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

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The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered. The…

Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and…

This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the…

Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it…

Helmand Province, October 2006: British soldiers are engaged in the most intense, sustained fighting they've faced since the…

When the Nazis began destroying lives across Europe and artists became state enemies, Nelly Kroeger, a tall, blonde…

Millions of British men were involved in the Great War of 1914-1918. But, both during and after the war, the individual…

The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain…

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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Produkt War for the Oaks - Bull, Emma zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Including facts, stories and information drawn from across history, science, art and literature - from finger-prints to…

In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud…

Offers an account of peace-keeping operations across the globe. This title shows what the resolutions mean for the people…

Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country? Where did they live - and how…

The best one-volume history of the Troubles, from the Irish Civil War through the IRA campaign of the 70s onwards to today's…

Autor : Tim Blanning, Popis : A historical biography in the tradition of Andrew Roberts' "Napoleon The Great" or Simon Sebag…

Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw's "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" is the concluding second volume of one of…

An autobiography of the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden. It records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and…