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

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

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'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across…

An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its…

Deals with the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the…

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The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the…

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

An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.…

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

An online travel journal that presents the author's observations and taglines that celebrate the special details of each…

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

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

Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary…

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

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

In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later,…

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This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's…

Tells the story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European…

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

The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of…

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

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

Written when the author was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester,…

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

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of…

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…

War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking…

The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title…

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

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Kniha 9780141396026 Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2 Philip Hensher…

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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the…

With eloquent simplicity, one of the world\'s last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom…

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A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. It offers an…

This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. "Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War…

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

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In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin…

An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the…

This comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide documents the psychological, investigative,…

Kniha 9780593083697 New Class War Michael Lind…

This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural,…

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a…

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

At the end of the Second World War Britain was in flux. It was an age of rationing and rebuilding; when hope for a better…

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