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A substantially revised and updated edition of the author's classic 1987 book, 'The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture ...
'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place ...
The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion
In 1991, after ...
A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians
A ...
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was ...
The third volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of ...
The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ...
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022
'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times
'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always ...
A vivid double biography of two fearless Early Medieval queens, and an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth-century ...
Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at ...
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages.
'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year
'Thrillingly ...
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the ...
The Enlightenment is the foundation of our modern world. This is now the book about it
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of ...
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city ...
The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In ...
