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A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one ...
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 ...
A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed
In ...
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of ...
The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022. It began eight years earlier in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. In his new ...
Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex ...
Peter Hainsworth's sparkling, eminently readable new English translation of The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione's (1478-1529) literary and philosophical masterpiece, captures all ...
"Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition provides an excellent introduction to Habsburg Spain's most reviled and misunderstood institution. Drawn from archival ...
Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a detailed overview of the most long-standing, and the most militarily and politically ...
'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week
'Extraordinary... A thrilling ...
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea.
Today it calls to mind a jumble of post-Soviet states paved ...
The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians.
In the space of less than 300 years ...
"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as ...
The gripping, tragic account of Kyiv during the Second World War, based on the author's diaries as a young boy.
The powerful rediscovered masterpiece ...
From the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose ...