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'The art historian Jack Hartnell tells this extraordinary story in his wonderfully rich study of the Middle Ages ... This beautifully illustrated book succeeds brilliantly in ...
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with ...
Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria s favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the ...
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking ...
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome.
Located at the ...
Excerpt from Beasts, Men and Gods Heart of Asia. My share in the work has been to induce Dr. Ossen dowski to write his story ...
We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical ...
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders ...
"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way ...
So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing ...
The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 ...
Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as ...
A very enjoyable and astringent account of the events that made 1968 and its aftermath so important
The 'long 68' saw an extraordinary range of ...
The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of ...
A beautifully re-imaged account of Captain Cook's great voyages through the Pacific.
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world ...