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Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother ...
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 ...
'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 ...
'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 ...
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define ...
A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August
The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades ...
