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A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring
Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and ...
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize
'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one ...
The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them
The moments that it took Gavrilo ...
An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in ...
A landmark study of of one of the most controversial periods in history, from an eminent historian
The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age ...
The life and times of Catherine de' Medici, by renowned scholar of the Italian Renaissance Mary Hollingsworth.
Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the ...
The Adriatic is 'the small Mediterranean' - a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely ...
Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing.'er at number 14 is dirtyReceiving an unexpected and unsigned note is ...
Three of Europe's greatest rivers begin in the same geological cradle: one fertile patch of high Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central ...
No other book on Byzantium manages to pack so much useful information into so few pages.'
-Jonathan Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
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'If you had assumed you knew everything about these two men of destiny, Richard Vinen's shrewd, provocative book will make you think again' DOMINIC ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine, wife to ...