Rome

a sourcebook on the ancient city

The ancient city of Rome was the site of daily activities as well as famous historical events. It was not merely a backdrop, but rather an active part of the experiences of its inhabitants, shaping their actions and infusing them with meaning. During each period ...

La Guerra Fría

una historia mundial

Tras la rendición de Alemania y luego de Japón en 1945 se abrigaron grandes esperanzas de poder crear un mundo nuevo y mucho mejor a partir de las ruinas morales y físicas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, la combinación del enorme poder de ...

The young Atatürk

from Ottoman soldier to statesman of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal - latterly and better known as Atatürk - is without doubt the most famous figure in modern Turkish history. But what was his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President.

A short history of the Hundred Years War

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In ...

Aleppo

the rise and fall of Syria's great merchant city

A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where ...

Gorbachov

vida y época

Cuando Mijaíl Gorbachov se convirtió en el líder de la Unión Soviética en 1985 la URSS era sin duda una de las dos superpotencias mundiales de aquel entonces. Cuatro años más tarde, la perestroika y la glásnost, máximos exponentes de sus políticas liberales, habían conseguido ...

Dragon Lords

the history and legends of viking England

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories ...

American cultural history

a very short introduction

In recent decades, culture-the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which they are organized-has earned prominent stature in the annals of American history. The United States often brings to mind Uncle Sam and the cowboys of the Old ...

The witch

a history of fear, from Ancient times to the present

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically ...

The Crusader Armies

A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles ...

The Kremlin letters

Stalin's wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume-the fruit of ...

The story of Greece and Rome

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However ...

Mussolini and Hitler

the forging of the fascist alliance

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes? From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded ...

Peace at last

a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

A vivid, original, and intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, to mark its centenary this year November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy ...

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and ...

Seapower states

maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the Modern World

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812-winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal-turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the ...

Fragile nation, shattered land

the modern history of Syria

The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire ...

The phoney victory

the World War II illusion

Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the ...

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution argues for a new interpretation of the seventeenth-century Scottish revolution that goes beyond questions about its radicalism ...

Londinium: a biography

Roman London from its origins to the Fifth Century

This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical ...