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The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three ...
Praise for The Perfect Nazi:
'Absorbing, highly readable and painstakingly researched' NIALL FERGUSON
'Unforgettable, haunting reading' SIMON SCHAMA
'A fascinating and extraordinary journey into the ...
A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it ...
From Stonehenge to microchips, discover the one simple method used to engineer the world as we know it
Discover the secret method used to build ...
From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this is the story of the Early Middle Ages and the hidden history of it's people
Updated with ...
Lucius Sergius Catilina ('Catiline'), was a Roman aristocrat from a poor but noble family. He was controversial figure both in his own times and in ...
A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan.
The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one ...
Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among ...
"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come ...
The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the ...
In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808-14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating ...
'The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of ...
Today, the peaceful ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, US intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last ...
In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance, before letting ...
The Wars of the Roses saw a series of bloody battles during one of the most turbulent periods of English history. The houses of Lancaster ...
