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Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert ...
In this book, the history of the medieval knight and the chivalric code is explored, with over 450 stunning images of the castles, quests, battles ...
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize
This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage ...
Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in ...
By the end of the 1960s the process of decolonization had practically run its course in Southeast Asia. One exception, however, was tiny Portuguese Timor ...
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia ...
Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates ...
Key Selling Points: Previously unpublished letters give a unique insight into his life, particularly during periods of desperation, hunger and loneliness A re-evaluation of Livingstone ...
Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of ...
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large ...
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and ...
During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered the entire Indian subcontinent reaching the borders ...
