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'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history ...
In 410 AD Rome was overrun by barbarians. But what really happened as the lights of Europe went out and the dark ages began?
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often ...
From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharinigia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe.
In 843 AD, the three surviving ...
Part memoir, part reflection, this book will bring to life central Europe during the last ten years of the Cold War. It begins in Trieste ...
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear
For freezing meteors and congealed cold.'
Christopher Marlowe
In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp ...
Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010. The worldwide coverage has shown up how ...
Hungary has an unusually fascinating and complicated history. The nation was only created in 1918 at the end of the First World War from the ...
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell ...
'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent
A new friendship.
An unforgettable journey.
A beautiful and bloody history ...
The story of poison is the story of power....
For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to ...
Barcelona has existed as a settlement for two millennia. Early civilizations shaped the city before it achieved, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, global power ...
The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the ...
In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoisation, forced labour camps and ...
War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu,is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely ...
War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu,
