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Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War Volume 2 - Intensified Attack
This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Command's pilots and aircrew throughout WWII. From the early wartime years when the RAF's first attempts to avenge...
Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and
Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the...
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts
The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And...
Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast
'Taking without taste, without choice, is ignorance and near vandalism.' - The French Directory to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1796 Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in...
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics
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,...
Romanization in the Time of Augustus
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion,...
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...
The Borgias
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners-set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have...
Britain's Last Invasion: The Battle of Fishguard, 1797
The history of Britain has been shaped by those who have invaded this small isle: the Romans, Vikings and Norman Conquest all moulded our society and culture. Surprisingly, the last...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan
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 legend. What propelled this cold-blooded...
Peninsula Years, The: Britain's Red Coats in Spain and Portugal
The Peninsular Campaign was conducted over terrain ranging from the sun scorched plains of Andulusia to the picturesque snow covered passes of the Pyrenees. Drawing on the experiences and observations...
Adolf's British Holiday Snaps: Luftwaffe Aerial Reconnaissance
After the fall of France and the allied retreat from Dunkirk, Hitler proposed the planned invasion of Great Britain. A secret aerial reconnaissance of the United Kingdom (and all of...
Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume III (October
Containing many previously unpublished letters, this third volume of a six volume collection of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), documents an important period in the history of the...
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
The Tudors is the first single-volume history of this fascinating dynasty in two decades. NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER .For the first time in decades comes a fresh look at the fabled...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
Conspirator
Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile- the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th-century history. It tells the story of...
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great
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...
Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history. The low-lying parts of Lincolnshire are covered by an array of maps of intermediate scope, covering...
Hitler's War: World War II as Portrayed by Signal, the International
The downfall of Nazi Germany, as seen through its own media. The first issue of Signal magazine, Germany's biweekly army propaganda publication, hit the newsstands in April of 1940. The...
The Path to the Berlin Wall: Critical Stages in the History of Divided
The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Josef Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western allies...
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War...
Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast
'Taking without taste, without choice, is ignorance and near vandalism.' - The French Directory to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1796 Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in...
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century.George Macartney's...
The Roman Way
In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides...
The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal
Born into a great Spanish noble family, Luisa de Carvajal hankered from her early years to become a martyr for her faith. In 1605 - the year of the Gunpowder...
Tigers at Dunkirk: The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France
In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army's defeat as it was experienced by the...
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and
Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By...
The Lost Beers & Breweries of Britain
Many beers have now gone, but they are not forgotten. They may have been swept away by a tide of takeovers and closures, their rich heritage casually spilt on the...
The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City
Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' cliche, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the cliche relates to...
Cockleshell Raid
Operation 'Frankton' is a story of how a handful of determined and resourceful men, using flimsy canoes, achieved what thousands could not by conventional means. The volunteers had enlisted for...
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
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In Going Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between England and Holland, two of Europe's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the...
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
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From the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling elan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of...
East India Patronage and the British State: The Scottish Elite and
The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of...
Constantine the Great General: a Military Biography
Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire (and thus ensuring its survival...
The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible
The King James Bible is both the standard scriptural text and, for centuries, the bestselling book in the English-speaking world. Melvyn Bragg reveals the political, linguistic, and religious influences the...
Wellington's Peninsular War: Battles and Battlefields
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Empires Apart
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Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power
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The Man Behind the Iron Mask
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The Children of Henry VIII
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The Story of Spain: The Dramatic History of Europe's Most Fascinating Country
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To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
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Seven Ages of Britain
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Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora
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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants
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