"e;The author-a staff officer-who was an eyewitness to most of the major events of the First Anglo-Burmese War, gives us an incisive overview of the whole war.
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The terrible truth behind Nazi Germany's plans for Great Britain, after WWIIIn July 1940, Walter Schellenberg of the German Secret Service drew up a list of 2,694 people believed to be living in Britain, who were known enemies of the Reich.
From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eug nie, empress of France-and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.
The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe.
Their Finest Hour covers the period in World War 2 after the fall of France when Britain stood alone, with victorious Germany and Italy engaged in mortal attack upon them, with Soviet Russia a hostile neutral actively aiding Hitler, and Japan an unknowable menace.
The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back again*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2025**THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024*'A glorious work of history.
This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation.
A cultural history of speech in medieval ItalyThe Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the power of words changed in Western thought.
Mientras la celestial música de Handel resuena vigorosa e inunda cada rincón gótico de la abadía, la imaginación nos traslada a otros mundos y el tiempo se detiene, porque no hay acontecimiento más importante que el que sucede bajo ese toldo donde la prosa cotidiana se convierte en mágico verso.
In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marxs analysis of history.
Aus dem Inhalt: Die ersten, welche das Land zwischen der Elbe und Saale anbauten, waren die Sorben-Wenden, eine slawische Nation, welche zu Augustus Zeiten an den Geraunischen Gebirgen wohnten, späterhin in Servien eindrangen, welches von ihnen den Namen erhielt, und durch Böhmen und Mähren in unsere Gegend kamen.
The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated "e;King of the Beggars.
This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people's changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today.
The diary notes that Ludger Kuhnhardt took while visiting or staying in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world.
Les Récits de Sébastopol (1855-1856) ont été écrits par Léon Tolstoï pour raconter ses expériences lors du siège de Sébastopol (1854) pendant la guerre de Crimée.
In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marxs analysis of history.
This commentary offers the reader a set of letters (or letter parts) written by Cicero, Paul, and Seneca, which have been selected against the Transformational Leadership categories of 'idealised influence', 'inspirational motivation', 'intellectual stimulation', and 'individualised consideration'.
This book shines a light on the specific role football played in relation to the international relations of the Franco regime in mid-twentieth-century Spain.
The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal.
The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in Soviet times.
Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft.
The diary notes that Ludger Kuhnhardt took while visiting or staying in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world.
This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people's changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today.
For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond.
These articles seek to understand the attitudes and reactions of medieval society to both external threat and internal dissension, whether real or imagined.
