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A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion and espionage. Adam Zamoyski explores the struggle by governments to police a world seemingly ...
This new and expanded second edition explores the life of the 16th-century "Blood Countess" of Hungary, Erzsebet Bathory. Reputed to be both a vampire and ...
This authoritative reference follows the history of conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula from the 19th century through the present day.
The Balkan Peninsula, which consists ...
A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known king
Philip II is not only the most ...
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453 ...
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 ...
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in ...
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 ...
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 ...
The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world
The magnificent Danube both cuts across ...
