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The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

von Joanna Pitman

Raphael's St. George and the Dragon is the work of a genius -- an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time. Yet the painting's creation is only the beginning...

Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II

von Robert Lacey

For more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor -- who became Elizabeth II, Queen of England on February 6, 1952 -- has been loved and loathed, revered and feared, applauded and criticized by her...

Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce

von Stanley Weintraub

It was one of history's most powerful -- yet forgotten -- Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in...

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

von Ian Mortimer

The past is a foreign country.

This is your guidebook.

A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you...

Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

von Michael Goldfarb

The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world...

The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name

von Toby Lester

"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of...

Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

von Kati Marton

"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full...

Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice

von Michael Bobelian

The first book to chronicle the aftermath of the twentieth century’s first genocide, this groundbreaking work recounts the Armenians’ struggle for justice in the face of fifty years of silence and denial....

Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds

von Leslie Carroll

The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals.

The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian History and Culture

von Gabrielle Ann Euvino

You're no idiot, of course. You know there's more to Italy's rich tapestry than spaghetti and the Sicilian Mafia, but you also know you have a lot to learn about the country that brought you the paintings of...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Irish History and Culture

von Sonja Massie

This "Complete Idiot's Guide" contains exhaustive, easy-to-follow coverage of all of Irish history--from the Celts to the Dark Ages to the crucial role of Christianity to conflicts with England to vital Irish...

The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine

von Peter Thonemann & Simon Price

A stunning work of research and imagination that sheds new light of the ancient world.

The western world has long been fascinated by classical Greek and Roman cultures, whose ideas and achievements underpin...

London: A Biography

von Peter Ackroyd

Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and...

The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

von Richard Overy

"Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."

-The New York Times Book Review

Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising,...

The Book of Margery Kempe

von Margery Kempe & Barry Windeatt

This earliest-known British autobiography is a remarkable and touching record of the author’s difficult pilgrimage from madness to Christian faith.

Letters on England

von Francois Voltaire & Leonard Tancock

The Cossacks and Other Stories

von Leo Tolstoy & David McDuff

Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army-the latest in our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

von James Boswell & David Womersley

The most complete edition ever published of the iconic Biography

WIDELY REGARDED as the finest literary biography ever published, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and...

The Condition of the Working Class in England

von Friedrich Engels & Victor Kiernan

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

von Caroline Alexander

More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has...