Ancient Egypt Investigated: Egyptian Culture in 101 Questions and Answers
Thomas Scheider
I B Tauris, HB, 9781780762302
How well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems so familiar to us: exhibitions of ancient art and archaeological discoveries in the desert sands continue to generate interest and amazement, while Egyptian motifs appear in architecture, in literature, in art works, in advertising and in films. And yet, so much of what we take for granted ... More/Buy
The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45
Ian Kershaw
Penguin, PB, 9780141014210
What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear they would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skin? And why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism? Ian Kershaw's searing account takes ... More/Buy
Graven With Diamonds: The many lives of Thomas Wyatt: Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy
Nicola Shulman
Faber, PB, 9781780720883
Learned divines despised it, sober heads ignored it, but for Henry, the beau ideal of chivalry, poetry made things happen. It affected his wars, his diplomacy and his many marriages. It was at the root of his fatal attraction to Anne Boleyn, the source of her power and it was the means of her destruction. In this witty, intriguing, accessible account, ... More/Buy
The Great Railway : RevolutionThe Epic Story of the American Railroad
Christian Wolmar
Atlantic, HB, 9780857890351
In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termini, built and controlled the biggest corporations in America. By the middle ... More/Buy
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
John Romer
Allen Lane, HB, 9781846143779
John Romer immerses the reader in this fascinating world, showing how archaeological evidence has allowed this long vanished civilization to gradually re-appear from under the sand, and the changing interpretations to which its breathtaking but entirely enigmatic remains have been subjected. Deeply suspicious of the grand narratives fabricated by the Victorian pioneers and the revisions proposed by modern cultural theorists, ... More/Buy
Kursk: The Greatest Battle Eastern Front 1943
Lloyd Clark
Headline, PB, 9780755336395
5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'. It was also one of the most bloody, characterised by hideous excess and outrageous atrocities. The battle concluded with Germany having ... More/Buy
The Lancashire Witches: Persecution, Politics & Murder in Early Modern England
Philip C Almond
I B Tauris, HB, 9781780760629
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery. And it was around Pendle Hill, a sombre ridge that looms over the ... More/Buy
People's History of the Second World War
Donny Gluckstein
Pluto, PB, 9780745328027
People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought - one 'from above' - ... More/Buy
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
David Gilmour
Penguin, PB, 9780141043418
David Gilmour's captivating history tells the story of Italy from Virgil to Verdi and on to today. Filled with colourful figures, vivid detail and personal observations based on a lifelong love of Italy, it also debunks many of the myths surrounding the country. Gilmour shows that Italy's glory comes not from a unified national identity, but from its regions, with their ... More/Buy
The Reign of Richard II: From Minority to Tyranny 1377-97
A K McHardy
Manchester University Press, PB, 9780719038532
The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the Revolution covers the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II's reign. This richly-documented period offers exceptional opportunities and challenges to students, and the editor has selected material from a wide range of sources: well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records. These are arranged chronologically to form a coherent narrative of ... More/Buy
Side by Side
Peace Research Institute in the Middle East
New Press, PB, 9781595586834
In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore how to 'disarm' the teaching of the history of the Middle East in Israeli ... More/Buy
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition & Extermination in 20th Century Spain
Paul Preston
Norton, HB, 9780393064766
The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave labourers. His enemies, however, met less-exalted fates. Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945, and as many again became ‘non-persons’. Paul Preston frames the story of the victims of ... More/Buy
The Twelve Caesars
Matthew Dennison
Atlantic, HB, 9781848876835
One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned; another earned the nickname 'sphincter artist'. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide - and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the 'twelve Caesars' - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, ... More/Buy