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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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices ...
Opens a fascinating new window onto medieval and early modern life - a world where it's possible to meet the devil on the road, control ...
An immersive, magisterial portrait of Myanmar, told through the story of its hidden railways
In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond ...
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan
'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent
'[A] massive achievement' Spectator
'Refreshingly readable' Guardian
For the past two thousand ...
The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come
Less than a month after it ...
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his ...
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muammad to the birth of the modern era.
This book describes and ...
Rediscover the precursors to and the cultural and historical ancestors of the modern-day vampire-the most powerful of all the forms taken by the undead-in this ...
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare ...
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 ...
