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Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while ignit...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `b...

Synopsis Costa Book of The Year 2018. A Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2019. The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland dur...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of 1111 Years & One Day. A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. At the end ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Vikings From Scandinavia to The Silk Roads. A Sunday Times Bestseller & The Times History Book of The Year 2021. Fol...

Synopsis On September 11, 1944, four American soldiers from the Fifth Armoured Division crossed the River Our and entered Hitler's Third Reich - th...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Great War & The Twentieth Century. The First World War shaped the 20th Century at home and abroad, through the widenin...

Synopsis Subtitled : Brexit & The Politics of Pain. With a New Afterword : Amity Island: The Unsettling of a Nation. A fierce, mordantly funn...

Synopsis Subtitled : Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940. Part of The Pelican History of Art Series edited by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Profes...

Synopsis What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different...

Synopsis It all started with a long distance cycle ride. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their ...

Synopsis This is a fascinating, extremely well written and nuanced explanation of the Spanish Civil War. Amid the many catastrophes of the twenti...

Synopsis Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James first published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over ne...

Synopsis Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed bestseller, now in paperback, James Hawes tells the story of Europe's mo...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops....

Synopsis Subtitled : Venice in The 19th Century. An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice l...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People. Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery...

Synopsis Winner of The English Pen Award. Translated by Marta Dziurosz. A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as ...

Synopsis Chapters : Cosmogony, The Gods, Religious Customs, The Heroes. 250 glossy full colour pages with many illustrations and pictures. Very inf...

Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...

Synopsis Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan P...

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...