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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 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 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 ...
'Fascinating and illuminating, this book tempers the justifiable rage with sharp and funny pinpricks to the pompous.' VAL MCDERMID, author of Past Lying
'As well ...
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 ...
'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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
