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'Fascinating and illuminating, this book tempers the justifiable rage with sharp and funny pinpricks to the pompous.' VAL MCDERMID, author of ...
A gripping true crime investigation into the murder of the relatives of Albert Einstein, set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Florence during WWII
Italy, August ...
The Moment the World Doomed Six Million to Die.
In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital ...
The miraculous story of Madrid-how a village became a great world city
For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under ...
A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern world
The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain ...
In the early morning of 9 April 1940, a fleet of German battleships entered the Oslofjord.
Norwegian artillery delayed them long enough for King Haakon ...
A major new account of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta
Even as the great siege began it was understood by both ...
'A fascinating book about four women - it tells us so much about their world, and about our own... What jumps off the page is the ...
'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.'
Timothy Snyder #1 New York ...
A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of ...
"Magnificent [and] wondrous." The Spectator
"Rich and illuminating." Literary Review
"Phenomenally accurate." History Today
"Stunning." The Morning Star
"Sweeping." The New European
"A wonderful book ...
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the ...
For over thirty years David S. Landes's The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now ...
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most ...
