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Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail ...
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance ...
A charming narrative and "pop historical" look into how Italy has shaped the Western world's most vibrant passions, from literature to love, music to ...
The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is no proper history of it. This exceptional work, by one of the ...
In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine ...
'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice ...
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now ...
In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the ...
A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman ...
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century, yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from ...
Whilst Richard I is one of medieval England's most famous kings he is also the most controversial. He has variously been considered a great ...
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other ...
Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic ...
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic ...
After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' incredible ...
