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The Steel Bonnets - Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

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The Collapse of Complex Societies

Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex soc...

Peasant Russia

The Proud Tower - A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic historie...

Castles Burning - A Child's Life in War

"I begged, and often my brother obliged. In the dark of night, when I couldn't sleep, Ivan told me fairy tales in a whisper. All the stor...

Fist in the Wilderness

The Story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it with...

Lords of the Horizons - A History of the Ottoman Empire

Very readable history of the Ottoman Empire. 'A fascinating read... he writes with an appropriate )elan( and balances the sweep of great ...

Josephine - A Life of the Empress

In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers ...

Hibbert, C: Queen Victoria - A Personal History

"[Christopher Hibbert] is our outstanding popular historian¿ This book is, I think, his masterpiece¿ he has portrayed her as physically a...

Progress and Religion - An Historical Inquiry

Dawson argued that Western civilization was at a turning point and confronted with two real choices: reappropriate a vital Christian cult...

Stone Voices - The Search For Scotland

This is the story of Neal Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity as Ascherson weaves togeth...

Magda Goebbels

* Remarkable biography of the complex and tragic 'First Lady' of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume One, History, Biography

"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although fre...

Dubrovnik - A History

Trade paperback. A comprehensive history of Dubrovnik's progress over twelve centuries of European development, encompassing arts, archit...

Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories

Sallust is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicer...

All Things Considered

A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors

Even more scurrilous than the TV series Rome, A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors tells the true story of toga par...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, ...

Sagittarius Rising

Originally published: London: P. Davies, 1936.

King John - England's Evil King?

The most up-to-date biography of King John by the acknowledged expert on his reign

De Dante Alighieri - Scriptore Ghibellino (1846)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

Wages of Guilt - Memories of War in Germany and Japan

In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant...

The Forsaken - An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

A remarkable piece of forgotten historya the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and bette...

Europe's Tragedy - A New History of the Thirty Years War

Peter Wilson is the GF Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull and the author of books on Germany and on the Holy Roman Empire.

Stalin - A Biography

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service'...

1939 - Countdown to War

Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that shaped the cataclysm o...

Island of the Doomed

Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) was regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish postwar generation. Among the many works he wrote...

Napoleon

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

European Weapons and Armour - From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.

Diana - Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

HENRY CONSTABLE: DIANA: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE Henry Constable's 'Diana' is one of the major Elizabethan sonnet sequences, reprinted he...

Space, Time and Gravitation - An Outline of the General Relativity Theory

2013 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Sir Arthur Stanl...

Alexander the Great - The Truth Behind the Myth

At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master...

Experiencing the Thirty Years War - A Brief History with Documents

Study the Thirty Years War from the perspective of those who lived it as Experiencing the Thirty Years War as an unprecedented collection...

Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - b...

Danubia

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013. For centuries the very peculiar Habsburg family ruled most of Central Europ...

The Edge of the World - How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are

Michael Pye has written eleven previous books, translated into eleven languages, including two British bestsellers and two New York Times...

Poland - A History

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated...

Augustus - From Revolutionary to Emperor

The story of how Augustus rose from an obscure teenager to become Rome's first and greatest emperor, after Caesar's death in 44 BC. A nat...

World History in Minutes - 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant

What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carter so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? Wor...

Eurafrica - The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. In ...

The Gates of Europe - A History of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe. ...

Jewish Salonica - Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic J...

Defiance: Greece and Europe - Greece and Europe

The story of Greece's resistance to European domination past and present.

The Somme - The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs

With 150 never-before-published images of the campaign, taken by the men who fought, and new and rarely-read accounts of the fighting. Th...

Altered Pasts - Counterfactuals in History

Historian Richard J. Evans imagines what could have been, and how alternative pasts could have shaped alternative futures. 'Evans is ruth...

Church of Spies - The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pont...

Seneca - A Life

A definitive biography of the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician, now in paperback. 'Riveting... a fine biography', T...

Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION A SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER 'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking pla...

Religion in Human Evolution - From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

A New York Times Book Review Editors¿ Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Soci...

The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland

The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory from the end of the Mesolithic through to ...

So Great a Prince - England and the Accession of Henry VIII

A vivid and original portrait of a year that stands at a crossroads between two great monarchs and two ages of English history.

Dutch Armies of the 80 Years' War 1568-1648 (2) - Cavalry, Artillery & Engineers

Throughout the 16th Century, the Spanish had an aura of invincibility. They controlled a vast colonial empire that stretched across the A...

Britain's Europe - A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation

Brendan Simms is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat, Europe: The Strugg...

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U...

God - A Human History of Religion

Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Harva...

A Short History of England

From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves ...

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) - From Playboy Prince to Warrior King

Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the poli...

Entered Apprentice Handbook

A handbook designed for the newly made Entered Apprentice. Contains the Entered Apprentice Handbook by JSM Ward with selected writings by...

The Hurricane Girls - The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly

Jo Wheeler is a writer and radio producer who has written books with Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and worked with a 1950s policewoman to ...

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States

Jeffrey Lewis PhD is a scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a research affiliate at the Stanford...