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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'The Witches of Scotland... profile persecuted women from the burning times. Their tales are woven by archivists, historians and writers - and by Venditozzi and Mitchell ...
From the Stone Age to 'Scandimania' - a brisk, illuminating journey through 14,000 years of Nordic history
Outsiders have long viewed Scandinavia as special, starting ...
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 ...
'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 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 ...
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 ...
