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'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 ...
A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign.
Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus ...
'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 ...
A revelatory new account of the magus and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
At the heart of the ...
This is the tale of Western Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and ...
'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe
'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph
A gripping account of hidden identity ...
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones-the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother ...
'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking... Concise and absorbing'
Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East
'Lively, original and fascinating'
David Abulafia, Literary Review ...
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age.
In 1346, a catastrophic ...
The first full, interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its very beginnings up to the threshold of Classical ...
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 compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of ...
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on ...
The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs
Central Europe is not just a space on a map but ...
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages.
'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year
'Thrillingly ...
