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The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history
The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command ...
Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman ...
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 ...
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 ...
'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking... Concise and absorbing'
Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East
Rodrigo Diaz lived a violently colourful life in ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crises.
When World War II ended, about ...
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 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 ...
'Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT ...
A cultural history of Europe's response to the Roma
This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history- the rejection of the Roma ...
