Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis. All built empires…

• Počet stran 464
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2021

The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe…

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• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs* Central Europe is not just a…

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• Rok vydání 2026

Produkt Muse of History - Murray, Oswyn zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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• Rok vydání 2019
• Angličtina

Ascent of Money, A Financial History of the World od výrobce Penguin Books Ltd.…

• Počet stran 448
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds…

Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The…

Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? This book explores the life and times of…

Offers an informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such…

• Počet stran 608
• Rok vydání 2014

Offers a collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms. This book brings together all the classic…

The chronicles of Froissart are one of the greatest contemporary records of 14th-century England and France. Depicting the…

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

Describes Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the…

The first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, exploring the battles as well as moving…

• Počet stran 752
• Rok vydání 2001

From early British colonisation to the Reagan years, this title captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a…

• Počet stran 768
• Rok vydání 2016

Produkt Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Describes the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations…

• Rok vydání 2020

An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die…

Traces the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. This book is illustrated and features more than sixty full-colour maps. It…

In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the…

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

At the end of September 1894 a charlady stole an undated and unsigned letter from the wastepaper bin of the German military…

Takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic…

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people…

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

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Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and…

Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest…

Engineering genius, technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom…

• Rok vydání 2025

'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the…

Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on…

• Počet stran 672
• Rok vydání 2017

Produkt On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

HRH King Abdullah was schooled in America and at Sandhurst and was heading for a life as a career soldier, when his father…

• Počet stran 720
• Rok vydání 1974

Gregory of tours wrote this dramatic narrative of sixth-century French history as a chronicle of the events leading up to…

Weaves together the histories of England, Scotland and Wales in a new way, describing fascinating moments and characters.…

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

The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes,…

• Počet stran 480
• Rok vydání 2001

Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defense forces, no king, no lords, no…

Celebrates Wales and things Welsh. This study it reflects the bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and…

By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command…

• Rok vydání 2024

'The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language,…

• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 2003

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