An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European historyThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if...więcej »
Vibrant vegetarian home-cooking recipes, capturing the essence of the Middle East, from the award-winning author of the best-selling The Lebanese Kitchen This glorious celebration of a ...więcej »
Monospaced fonts originate from the typewriter and are characterized by the peculiarity that all letters, digits, and characters have the same width. Mono is the new Black discusses the function an...więcej »
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet worldTowards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volo...więcej »
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Penno...więcej »
In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated.Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's descript...więcej »
HEROISM CAN BE FOUND IN THE QUIETEST PLACES - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZISTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and...więcej »
A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East.In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly...więcej »
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to creat...więcej »
The Tower is such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impressed' TRACY CHEVALIER ...więcej »
When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror.<...więcej »
World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise in this gripping and powerful histo...więcej »
Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian'Begs to be read' Spectator'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington BlackIn ...więcej »
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottom...więcej »
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 World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl nam...więcej »
Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated L...więcej »
'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have ...więcej »
Pericles returns to Athens as its leader: the empire's beacon of light in the dark.But the threat of Sparta - Athens's legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sudden catast...więcej »
An essential short introduction to the Middle Ages - and the companion volume to Ian Mortimer's bestselling The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.We tend to think about the Mid...więcej »
This gripping book is the story of Ukraine’s Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child.'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail'So here is my invitation: ent...więcej »