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A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on...

Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer "A first-class historian." --The Wall Street Journal Vendetta! "A wealth of insights."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Unexplained Mysteries of World War II "Anyone interested...

The book titled The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings by the author Professor R W B Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This study deals with the events of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War from 1917-1921. It provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period,...

An account of France in the Occupation, "Marianne in Chains" focuses on the area around Tours in the Loire and in so doing, Robert Gildea provides us with a microcosmic...

The book titled A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913-50 by the author Duff Cooper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused...

First time in Penguin Classics for this single-volume edition of Churchill's most famous speeches The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business...

With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...

The book titled This I Cannot Forget: Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow by the author Anna Larina. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Utopia in Power: History of the U.S.S.R. from 1917 to the Present by the author Mikhail Geller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

This highly illustrated, detailed account of Harry and Meghan's relationship celebrates the announcement of their wedding and tells the story of a thoroughly modern royal romance. The book charts their...

The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...

This work recounts Richard Hillary's experiences as a fighter pilot in World War II, in which he was shot down and spent months in hospital, undergoing operations to rebuild his...

This brilliant new book explores how, over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on...

The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution...

The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and...

Gwynne Lewis provides the first short introductory history of the French Revolution to relate the social, economic and cultural to the intellectual and political. Combining interpretive narrative with thematic analysis,...

'A deed of glory intimately involved in high strategy' - Winston Churchill St Nazaire, 1.34am March 28th, 1942 - the destroyer HMS Campbeltown , with her Oerlikons blazing at the...

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For...

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...

Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's...

This is a study of the social, economic, and political role of Vodka in nineteenth-century Russia. Since the `Green Serpent' first appeared in sixteenth-century Muscovy, it has played a vital...

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune....

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the...

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History...

Beautifully repackaged paperback edition of critically acclaimed hardback In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The...

In the summer of 1992, accompanied by Philip Marsden, the exiled poet Zofia Hinska stepped into the Belorussian village where she had spent her childhood. The Bronski House is in...

As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, he had...

From the editor of the widely praised Landmark series comes The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, the account from classical Greece of the conquests of the greatest military leader...

The book titled Provence: Ecco Travels by the author Ford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

An intelligence agency expose so explosive that the British government tried to stop its publication or the first time ever, MI6, Britain's legendary player at the chessboard of international intelligence-gathering,...

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal history, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our...

The third volume of Alan Johnson's bestselling and award-winning memoirs takes us to the corridors of Westminster and lifts the lid on the life of a hard-working constituency MP... Winner...

Balazuc is a small medieval village carved from a limestone cliff thast towers over the Ardeche River in south-central France. It is a lovely place for visitors, but for residents...

This work is a narrative of the most momentous event in the post-war world - the end of communism and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union. Seen, in some...

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than...

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future....

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to contemporary Russia by examining its past. This second edition includes new material and expands sections dealing with the late...

This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the text and translations,...

While great leaders may sometimes be born, there are certain traits they share. To be a highly effective leader you must inspire action, be optimistic, have integrity, support your team,...

Forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within the 'Sonderlager' of Colditz castle, the famous prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War...

The story of the Sandakan prisoner of war camp during the closing years of World War II. Of the 1793 Australian and 641 British servicemen held in the North Borneo...