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Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide...

From the team that brought you the bestselling Bradshaw's Handbook comes another fantastic facsimile reproduction - The Battle of Waterloo. First published in the months after the battle, this unique...

The Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and his cruelty to women, nonetheless lived a life dominated by them - his charismatic mother, iron-willed mother-in-law, and his wife....

Inspired by real history, Rules of the Heart is the sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow. Propriety of conduct was never my...

Are some patterns destined to be repeated? "Spellbinding and decadent . . . an astounding debut" SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA ___________________ Paris, 1789. The Oberst Factory, which crafts exquisite...

Are some patterns destined to be repeated? "Spellbinding and decadent . . . an astounding debut" SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA ___________________ Paris, 1789. The Oberst Factory, which crafts exquisite...

Refreshed, renewed, reloaded! All the most horrible facts about the Gorgeous Georgians ready for readers to uncover, including: their sneaky schemes for hiding personal hygiene problems and the schoolchildren who...

When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned,...

The startling story of the French struggle for identity and unity in the bloody aftermath of the Revolution Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for...

The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The entertaining biography...

This is the third volume in Lucy Norton's three-volume abridgement and translation of the the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, first published in the 1960s. The court of Louis...

The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he...

'A richly illustrated book that provides a fascinating insight into collaborative and social artistic production in early modern Japan' - Andon , the Journal of the society for Japanese Art...

"On or about December 1910" human character changed, Virginia Woolf remarked, and well she might have. The company she kept, the Bloomsbury circle, took shape before the coming of World...

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the vast Soviet Empire have led to an unexpected revival of nationalism in Europe. Long-forgotten claims, minority conflicts, and nationalist...

A spicy 'Why choose' regency romance set five years after the initial SECOND SONS duology by viral TikTok sensation, Emily Rath. The Lady has an offer. The Vicar has a...

This volume in 'Conway's Compass Series' integrates an original narrative with quotations from documents and eyewitnesses, and reproductions of contemporary illustrations or photographs to provide an authoritative account of the...

Six new delightful and collectible hardback editions from Penguin Classics, publishing to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary 'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of...

Metternich was at the heart of Europe's diplomatic community and he paints revealing portraits of such key figures as Napoleon, Czar Alexander, Talleyrand and the Bourbons. He also reveals much...

One of the greatest works of the American West - 'A new American classic.' Time On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne...

The Enlightenment had dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies. Man's quest for ecstasy and trancendance flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the...

Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and...

'A richly illustrated book that provides a fascinating insight into collaborative and social artistic production in early modern Japan' - Andon , the Journal of the society for Japanese Art...

Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition...

William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker . Now writers...

The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies...

Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. "The common sight of...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...

As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...

The book titled Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia by the author Nance Donkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue by the author Annette Tapert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Damn' Rebel Bitches: Women of the '45 by the author Maggie Craig. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...

This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...

The celebrated French general and emperor Napoleon I was born in Ajaccio in Corsica in 1769. France had acquired Corsica only 15 months before his birth, and in his early...

The book titled Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus by the author Brian Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This selection, both verse and prose, represents all aspects of Clare's genius - bird poems, observations on nature, songs and ballads, social satire, and intense expressions of Clare's search for...

The book titled France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century by the author Roger Magraw. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A fascinating read beyond the scholarly debate about who won the battle.' Sunday Times The battle of Isandlwana - a great Zulu victory - was one of the worst defeats...

Sexual politics is far from being a recent subject of debate. In the 1880s it occupied a position of central importance in certain radical circles in London, where intellectuals such...

An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in...

This work is a combination of critical essays on understanding romantic poetry, prose and drama, as well as the contemporary historical background, with a complementary A-Z section of detailed entries....

A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955....

This 2006 introduction aims to share with readers the author's enjoyment of the turbulent 240-year history of a theatre that tried, often against the odds, to be 'modern'. In each...

Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing...

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues...

Focusing on the first meetings of Maoris and Europeans from 1642 to 1722, this book reassesses accounts of early meetings between these two worlds, which have been told almost exclusively...

After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody...