One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history... Zobraziť viac
The influence Britain’s geology has had on our daily lives is profound. While we may be unaware of it, every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand, a million, or a thousand million years ago... Zobraziť viac
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East... Zobraziť viac
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential... Zobraziť viac
There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping and intimately told history of exiles and refugees... Zobraziť viac
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific... Zobraziť viac
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Egypt is your in-depth guide to the very best of the oldest tourist destination on Earth... Zobraziť viac
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard... Zobraziť viac
In Acts of Resistance, Amber Massie-Blomfield writes about the artists who have treated the protest site as their canvas and contributed to movements that have transformed history - from the musicians in Auschwitz to the four-year Siege of Sarajevo... Zobraziť viac
Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting bestselling historian Max Hastings’s lifetime of studying war... Zobraziť viac
On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture... Zobraziť viac
Germany, 1918- a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons... Zobraziť viac
The Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man... Zobraziť viac
The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age... Zobraziť viac
When Jo Lancaster, the first British pilot to eject in an emergency, triggered his ejection seat in 1949, it took thirty seconds before he was safely away from the aircraft and under his parachute... Zobraziť viac
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas... Zobraziť viac
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions... Zobraziť viac