A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.
Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.
"Es una magnífica noticia que se rescate este clásico, porque De Pavía a Rocroi es una obra maestra, imprescindible en toda buena biblioteca histórica.
Mark Zuckerberg's A Year of Books SelectionGeorge Orwells bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984.
In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "e;The Blitz"e; brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven in this ';fast-paced narrative that ispart intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller' (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses.
On 8 November 2004, the largest battle of the War on Terror began, with the US Army's assault on Fallujah and its network of tens of thousands of insurgents hiding in fortified bunkers, on rooftops, and inside booby-trapped houses.
Simon Scarrow's four classic novels based on the lives of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte are published together in one superb-value ebook volume not to be missed by readers of Bernard Cornwell.
From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World WarMore men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain.
A mediados del siglo XX, Marruecos desarrolló un afán expansionista que supo aprovechar la débil posición internacional de España para arrebatarle en apenas siete meses el Sahara español.
Desde Sumeria y Babilonia hasta Grecia y Roma: 27 grandes batallas navales, los navíos y sus tácticas: Cumas, Salamina, Actium, Micala, Eurimedón, Arginusas, Egos Pótamos.
Wissend, dass sich die Lage in Gallien zuspitzte und das letztlich die Legionen vom Rhenus den Brand würden löschen müssen, ohne dabei die Grenze zur Germania Magna aufbrechen zu dürfen, brauchte Verginius Rufus, der Statthalter des Exercitus Germania Superior, Gewissheit zur Bereitschaft des Statthalter im Exercitus Germania Inferior zum Mitwirken bei einer Niederwerfung eines gallischen Aufstandes.
An zu vielen Orten zu viele Feuer des Widerstandes gegen Rom entzündet, stiegen die Provinzen Judäa und Lugdunensis, sowie die Militärterritorien entlang der römischen Grenze zu Germanien zu Brennpunkten bevorstehender Auseinandersetzungen auf.
Während Nero, der Kaiser Roms, neue Siege in Olympischen Wettstreit errang und so glaubte, seine Göttlichkeit beweisen und seine Macht stabilisieren zu können, mussten Andere dafür als Bewahrer dieser Macht auftreten.
An zu vielen Orten zu viele Feuer des Widerstandes gegen Rom entzündet, stiegen die Provinzen Judäa und Lugdunensis, sowie die Militärterritorien entlang der römischen Grenze zu Germanien zu Brennpunkten bevorstehender Auseinandersetzungen auf.
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie' Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the 'hot gates' of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer to them than life itself - the ideal of freedom.
Bombardeos, asesinatos, secuestros, grandes desembarcos, paracaidistas tras las líneas enemigas, la imaginación a la hora de decantar la guerra hacia un lado u otro no tuvo límites durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y en la mayor parte de los casos el asunto se dilucidó entre las mentes más preclaras o simplemente por el curso de los acontecimientos.
'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, from Egypt to Uzbekistan, and died in Babylon at the age of 32 with further ambitions unfulfilled.
The story of Thermopylae, the battle that helped define the identity of the ancient Greeks: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it means for us today.
The story of Thermopylae, the battle that helped define the identity of the ancient Greeks: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it means for us today.
The true story of seventeen months in the life of a Vietnamese village where a handful of American Marines and Vietnamese militia lived and died together attempting to defend it.
