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...
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 'This is proper history. It is illuminating to pick up this book with the twenty-first century's crises of...
Author: Azad Cudi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland...
Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling,...
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
Author: Patricia Goldstone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 344 Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the...
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Author: Michael Doran (Princeton University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise" (The New York Times Book Review)--a major retelling of the...
Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an...
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
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...
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new...
Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo...
Author: Andrew Hosken Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In June 2014 Islamic State launched an astonishing blitzkrieg which saw them seize control of an area in the...
Author: Patrick Cockburn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al...
Author: Arrian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of...
