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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 ...
A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World
Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human ...
Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God's Crucible is a bold portrait of ...
With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western ...
In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable ...
Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps ...
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and ...
The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which ...
On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the ...
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the ...
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of ...
Introduction to the world of the medieval knight, from training to tournaments. Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry ...
'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 ...
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month
Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing ...