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Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by...
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust
Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...
The Conquest of Gaul
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Author: Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris...
Gunter Grass
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium,...
Rebel in the Ranks
Author: Brad S Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very...