Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos... Zobraziť viac
A visual history of the world’s magic megalopolis... Zobraziť viac
When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happened... Zobraziť viac
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front. In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells... Zobraziť viac
On the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains... Zobraziť viac
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein... Zobraziť viac
Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion... Zobraziť viac
This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas. Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known philosophers in their historical and cultural context, showing you... Zobraziť viac
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England ... Zobraziť viac
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility... Zobraziť viac
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia... Zobraziť viac
We are all too familiar with the stories of Jews who were tortured and killed in concentration camps throughout the Third Reich. But less is known about the persecution of Polish prisoners housed in Majdanek... Zobraziť viac
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines... Zobraziť viac
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill... Zobraziť viac
Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city... Zobraziť viac
Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale... Zobraziť viac
This is a paean for a disappearing world of movable borders, sacred groves and syncretism. And an invitation to not forget... Zobraziť viac
A provocative reinterpretation of the tumultuous late 1970s and early 1980s in the Middle East... Zobraziť viac
The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women – and then won back again... Zobraziť viac
