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An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water
'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle
'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book ...
The Brienne/Beaumonts, a noble family originally from Champagne, spread across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Their story begins with John ...
In his busy life Balzac wrote many love letters, and in The Human Comedy he portrayed many female beauties, but he certainly never imagined or ...
The figure of the gladiator is as compelling to us as it was to the Romans. Why are we drawn to this ancient blood sport ...
When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western ...
The greatest danger to Roman Emperors was the threat of deadly conspiracies arising among the Senate, the Imperial Court or even their own families All ...
The deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the ...
Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen is considered to be one of the most tragic characters in English history. In July 1553 when King Edward ...
With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in ...
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt
"A visceral and perceptive study of ...
A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it ...
The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland
From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the ...
Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into ...
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court ...
In 1215 King John had agreed to the terms of Magna Carta, but he then reneged on his word immediately, plunging the kingdom into war ...
