Histoire

Ten Men Dead

 The story of the 1981 Irish hunger strike.

Spartans

 The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals Sparta embodied militarism, totalitarianism, segregation and brutal repression. As …Lire la suite

Daughter of the Desert

 Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Daughter of the Desert is …Lire la suite

An Army At Dawn

The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Beginning with the daring …Lire la suite

The First Household Cavalry Regiment, 1943-44

In the Shadow of Monte Amaro

In the Shadow of Monte Amaro provides a new focus on the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment, the way its mettle was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy. It reveals and explores this largely undervalued and forgotten part of a costly and complex struggle, where there are lessons to be learned by everyone. We directly experience what it was like to be there. It also has…Lire la suite

Pol Pot

The History of a Nightmare

Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression.In the three-and-a-half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from …Lire la suite

Die 50 populärsten Irrtümer der deutschen Geschichte

Irrige Überlieferungen von der Siegfried-Sage über Luthers Thesenanschlag bis zu den Hitler-Tagebüchern Historische Wahrheit ist ein Trugbild, Geschichte immer auch Dichtung und Deutung. Gutberlet geht fünfzig Irrtümern und Legenden vornehmlich aus der deutschen Geschichte auf den Grund: Gab es überhaupt je Karl den Grossen? Gab es ein "Recht der ersten Nacht"? Hat Graf Zeppelin wirklich …Lire la suite

The Poor Had No Lawyers

Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it

Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In The Poor Had No Lawyers, Andy Wightman, author of Who Owns Scotland, updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland and takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into Scotland's history to find out how and why …Lire la suite

Caesar

The Life Of A Colossus

From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle, captured and held to ransom by pirates, and almost bankrupted himself by staging games for the masses.As a politician, he quickly gained a reputation as a dangerously ambitious maverick. By his early 30s …Lire la suite

Disraeli's Grand Tour

Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land, 1830?1831

'Lively and entertaining... [Disraeli's Grand Tour] concentrates on one colourful episode, or sequence of episodes, in the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who was intended to become his brother-in-law. On the way they were joined by raffish Wykhamist James Clay, a friend of Disraeli's brother, and also by Tita Falcieri, who…Lire la suite