The Curse of the Mummy

Brief History: The Dynasties of China

By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation. His unique bird's-eye

Deception : Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the

Gibraltar : The Greatest Siege in British History

Located between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, on the very edge of Europe, Gibraltar was a place of varied nationalities, languages, religions and social classes. Durin...

The Second Nuclear Age

The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons - a luxury

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays, three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became thi...

Went the Day Well?

Drawing from the diaries, letters, reports and stories from participants and witnesses, the author describes in detail an hour-by hour account of the Battle of

The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire

The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain

Thomas Cromwell : The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister

The son of a brewer, Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) rose to become Earl of Essex, Vice-Regent and High Chamberlain of England, Keeper of the Privy Seal

The Last of the Celts

Award-winning author Tanner has journeyed throughout the Celtic world--from the wilds of Northwest Scotland to the Isle of Man, and from Boston to Cape Breton--seeking

Conspiracy Theories

Is the world as we know it a lie? Could the truth be something far different to what we're told it is? Whether it's the

Lucifer Rising British Intelligence and the Occult in the Second World War

Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so the British secret services turn to figures from the occult

The Holocaust

This thought-provoking book uses evocative photographs, maps and easy-to-follow text to tell the story of this dark event to young readers in a clear and

Islamism

A political, social, and cultural battle is boiling over in the Middle East at the moment. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe

The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements,

The World's Greatest War Cartoonists 1792-1945

„Nimic care să atingă gloria marilor caricaturiști! ... ei îi învață pe istorici meseria lor”, a spus fostul lider al Partidului Laburist Michael Foot, opinie

To War With Wellington: From The Peninsula To Waterloo

Using first-hand accounts written by generals, cavalrymen and foot-soldiers of the Duke of Wellington's army, Peter Snow conjures up the horror of the early 19th

Codename Suzette

A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman

The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere 'pup' among

UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth : A Short History of UFOlogy

This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt

Deepfakes

Everything you need to know about 'deep fake' image manipulation and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a

Holocaust Child : Lalechka

A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of

Operation Epsom

Before EPSOM in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counterstroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the

Lincoln

This interactive biography of one of America's greatest presidents covers the entire life of Abraham Lincoln and includes a host of family photographs, official portrait...

Aircraft and Aviation Stamps

In his quest he has covered many unusual places that have only become more accessible with the advent of cheap air travel but has still

Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952

Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952 presents new and often dismissed aspects of the constitutional monarchy era in Egyptian history. It demonstrates that many of the domesti...

Evil Families

Throughout history, you see examples where criminality seems to run in the family. From the Ptolemaic dynasty that terrorized Greek Egypt to the modern mafia,

The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World

When the ship of dreams sank, so did the Edwardian era. In this original and meticulously-researched narrative history, Gareth Russell considers the real story of

The Making of a Justice

A masterful and personal account of life on the Supreme Court that offers a unique understanding of American history from one of the most prominent

It Came from Something Awful

An insider's history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Donald Trump into the White House. The

1963: That Was the Year That Was

A compendium of the year's milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture and politics. This year alone saw The Beatles' first No 1, Martin

The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks

Istoria este un subiect bogat, variat și fascinant, astfel încât este rar să găsești totul într-o carte ... până acum. The History of the World

COMANDANTE: HUGO CHAVE'S VENEZUELA

The inside story of Hugo Chavez’s rule and complex legacy Few leaders in our time have been as divisive and enigmatic as the late Hugo

American Bible-Whose America Is This?

The New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One presents a provocative crash course in the great 'American scriptures'--those texts

CITY OF SIN: LONDON

For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. In this text, Catharine Arnold turns

European Women and Preindustrial Craft

Essays examine key 18th- and 19th-century industries, including spinning, weaving, calico painting, and the lingerie trade. Focusing on links between women's preindustria...

Only Plane in the Sky

It begins predawn, where we meet airport staff who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights. From a secret bunker beneath the White House, Dick Cheney

Women in Aviation

Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart may be the most famous trailblazing women within the world of early aviation, but there were many others. From the

How Australia Became British: Empire and the China Trade

Australia's tale of discovery, colonization and eventual settlement by the British is fraught with conflict. Wilson's discovery of the Eastern Passage, in 1759, was the

Patriotic Betrayal

Overview: In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War,

America's Culture of Terrorism : Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word

Although the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 shocked the world, America has confronted terrorism at home for well over a century. With the invention

Ian Fleming's Commandos

În 1942, locotenent-comandantul Ian Fleming era asistent personal al directorului de informații navale - figura dinamică din spatele lui „M”,șeful fictiv al lui James Bo...

Exploiting Africa

'The purpose of this book is to provide an historical examination of China's activities in Africa, an important yet overlooked aspect of the broader subject

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot

From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power,

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this

The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass Murderer

At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost. Yet sixty years after Himmler's capture by

The Oxford History of Britain and Ireland: Volume 3: Crown and People : 1500 - 1700

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day.

Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

This catalog describes 24 manuscripts from the Collection of Thomas Ryburn Buchanan presented to the Bodleian in 1939 and 1941. The collection consists primarily of

Rory Steward - Occupational Hazards

By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, a young Biritish diplomat, was appointed as the

Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays

North American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. The Native populations of North America have served a variety

The Journey to the Mayflower

‘A rattling good read’ – The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower – the

Dateline

“Oft times one day is better than sometimes a whole year.” William Caxton (1422–1491) Each day of the year commemorates the anniversaries of famous birthdays,

1916: A Global History

A fascinating examination of the First World War beyond the Western Front told through the significant global events of 1916, which dramatically altered the fate

All the president's men

'The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history' (Time)--from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, #1 New York Times

External Relations of Early Iron Age Crete 1100-600 BC

The centerpiece of Jones' (classics, U. of Tennessee-Knoxville) work is a catalogue of foreign artifacts found at 33 sites in Crete, and Cretan artifacts found

Dangerous Seats

Eugene L. Wolfe looks at how instances of individual strife against Members of Parliament - be it arrest or imprisonment, brawls on the floor, attacks

Dynastic Rule: Mikhail Piotrovsky and the Hermitage

The Hermitage, one of the world-renowned Russian State Museums in St. Petersburg, was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has ever since been

Ghosts of Langley

During his first visit to Langley, the CIA’s Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, “I am so behind you . . . there’s

Rough and Tumble

Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the

House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty

The Tudor court was a snake pit of competing factions, and none was more Machiavellian than the Howard family. After John, first Duke of Norfolk,

The Rise of the Outsiders

Something strange has been happening. All over the world, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls