History

In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Émile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be ...

The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, fate ...

The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought ...

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Therese Humbert was one of the most powerful women in France. But it was a hoax. Finally exposed in 1902, she was found to own one button and one Italian lira. This is the story of the rise and fall of a poor French peasant woman.

Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? What must it have been like to have paraded up and down the great glass galleries of the Crystal Palace in London in 1851? Why is the Euston Arch, demolished ...

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Featuring a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPherson A vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer ...

Experience life in Britain during the second world war Contains over 30 rare removable facsimile documents & memorabilia and an audio CD

Troy is the city that gave birth to some of the greatest stories the Western world has ever heard. Troy digs deep into the history of the magnificent city, the myths and legends, the fate of treasures and of men and women, taking us up to the present day. For Troy is not only a place of myth, Troy existed. ...

Experience life in Britain during the second world war Contains over 30 rare removable facsimile documents & memorabilia and an audio CD

A new edition of the 1992 book detailing the complexities of life for women in Roman Britain. This edition chronicles the latest discoveries - tombstones, writing tablets, curse tablets, burials and artefacts - to create a vivid picture of the lives, habits and thoughts of women in Britain over four ...

The Civil War between the Northern and Southern states of America was the first great conflict to take place in the age of photography and many of the pictures - taken in the field and in studios--have survived to this day. In this superb collection you will find startling, emotive and sometimes surprisingly ...

Packed full of unique material and first-hand accounts from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, it tells of the men and women who won the Battle of Britain in that fateful summer, at home and in the air.

Exploring the often misunderstood work of Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, the author positions Machiavelli's writings as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State.

A collection of essays, representing research in the archives at the British Library, examining Macmillan's astute business strategy during the 19th century, its successful expansion into overseas markets, and its complex and intriguing relations with authors such as W.B. Yeats.

Founding fathers: the shaping of America tells the story of six formidable Americans George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and how they persevered for 50 years of battle and bar-knucle government to forge a nation. COMES with Facsimile ...