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'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most ...
A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians
A ...
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 ...
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation ...
A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
At the ...
The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion
In 1991, after ...
'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place ...
'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT
'Extraordinarily perceptive and original' ANTHONY SELDON
'Refreshing and important' RAFAEL BEHR
'A light-footed journey along the fault ...
A Ukrainian classic - the gripping account of Kyiv during the Second World War told by a young boy who saw it all.
This gripping story ...
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was ...
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll ...
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before
Decades ...
Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How ...
In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would ...
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential
"Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and ...