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During the First World War, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, secretly promised the Sharif of Mecca an independent Arab state, including ...
Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.
'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The ...
Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for ...
Discover the history and culture of over 50 of the most fearsome mythical creatures to capture the human imagination in this startlingly illustrated compendium. Accompanied ...
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world; perfect for fans of Ian Mortimer, who calls this book 'rich and wonderful'
From the medieval bazaars ...
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 ...
A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis
In ...
'Chillingly original' Max Hastings
'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor
'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum
'Britain's most ...
The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the ...
Margaret, the first Tudor princess and queen consort and queen regent of Scotland, is the forgotten Tudor. Yet the elder sister of Henry VIII led ...
A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the ...
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond
"Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Spain ...
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES
'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND ...
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history
Few images more shocked the French ...
