Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the…

Analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s. It describes the patrimonial state, and…

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

Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest…

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

• Rok vydání 2022

• Čeština

Drawing on a cache of personal documents, the author retraces Bruno Langbehn's journey from disillusioned adolescent to SS…

In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural…

The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in…

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers…

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

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

Presents nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest…

Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the…

Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great…

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…

When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author…

Challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. This title examines the…

In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs.…

The Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour, incompetence and dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded…

• Počet stran 304
• Rok vydání 2011

Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the…

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

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global…

In the dialogue between the poet Simonides and Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, the author provides a consummate consideration of…

• Rok vydání 2019

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the…

• Rok vydání 2009

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 title was Burckhardt's major contribution to cultural history and was first published in 1860. The work covers the…

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

• Počet stran 496
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publication Roger…

• Počet stran 784
• Rok vydání 2016

Produkt Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2 zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

• Rok vydání 2024

• Rok vydání 2025

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This…

• Rok vydání 2015

Examines the life of Joseph P Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. This book tells…

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a…

• Počet stran 496
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the…

Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked…

• Počet stran 513
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2013

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being…

• Rok vydání 2013

The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest…

• Rok vydání 2016

On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and…

• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 2014

Offers an account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. This title…

• Počet stran 352
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2007

A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the…

Presents a historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Tracing the history of the Church from the…

Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place…

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by…

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death…

There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. This account brings the reader…