Penguin The Classical World. An Epic History of Greece and Rome Fox Robin Lane

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Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization • The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history, spans almost a thousand years of change from the foundation of the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic and the Empire under Hadrian • Bringing great figures such as Homer, Socrates, Cicero, Alexander, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Augustus and the first Christian martyrs to life, exploring freedom, justice and luxury, this wonderfully exciting tour brings the turbulent histories of Greece and Rome together in a masterly study подробнее

For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade

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Penguin The Ship Asunder. A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels Nancollas Tom

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder, and, fantastical though she is, we could in fact find her today, scattered in fragments across the country's creeks and coastlines • In his moving and original new history, Tom Nancollas goes in search of eleven relics that together tell the story of Britain at sea. From the swallowtail prow of a Bronze Age vessel to a stone ship moored at a Baroque quayside, each one illuminates a distinct phase of our adventures upon the waves; each brings us close to the people, places and vessels that made a maritime nation

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Penguin The Cut Out Girl. A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found Es Bart van

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why • His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined

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Bloomsbury The Blazing World. A New History of Revolutionary England Healey Jonathan

A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world • The seventeenth century began as the English suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, the country suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time – for the only time in history – England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over faith and no boundaries to politics. In the coffee shops and alehouses of plague-ridden London, new ideas were forged that were angry, populist and almost impossible for monarchs to control • Despite the radical changes that transformed England, few today understand the story of this revolutionary age

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William Collins Hollow Places. An Unusual History of Land and Legend Hadley Christopher

A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history • Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire field, an ancient yew tree hid a dragon hunted by a giant named Piers Shonks. Today, the dragon and its slayer are the survivors of an 800-year battle between rural legend and national record, storytellers and sceptics • In this brilliant and lyrical history, Christopher Hadley journeys from churches to tombs to manuscript margins, to explore history, memory and legend, and the magical spaces where all three meet

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Windmill Books Tower. An Epic History of the Tower of London Jones Nigel

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. This title presents the story of the Tower of London as an ancient structure and as a living symbol of the nation

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William Collins Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War Hastings Max

Вьетнам стал самым противоречивым конфликтом современного западного мира,спровоцировав унижение на поле боя для Франции в 1954 году,а затем гораздо более серьезное для Соединенных Штатов в 1975 году. Макс Хастингс провел последние три года, опрашивая десятки участников с обеих сторон,а также исследуя множество американских и вьетнамских документов и мемуаров, чтобы создать эпическое повествование об эпической борьбе. Он изображает декорации Дьенбьенфу,наступление Тет, воздушный налет на Северный Вьетнам и менее известные сражения, такие как кровавая баня в Дайдо, где батальон морской пехоты США был почти уничтожен,вместе с необычными воспоминаниями воинов Хо Ши Мина. Вот яркие реалии борьбы среди джунглей и рисовых полей,в результате которой погибло 2 миллиона человек

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Penguin Travelling Heroes. Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer Fox Robin Lane

Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales • The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. But where did they originate? Esteemed classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime's knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, to open up the age of Homer • His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad

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Penguin Shakespeare's Restless World. An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects MacGregor Neil

The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at once distant and yet surprisingly familiar. From knife crime to belief in witches, religious battles to the horizons of the New World, Neil MacGregor brings the past to life in a fresh, unexpected portrait of a dangerous and dynamic era

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Penguin The Brothers York an English Tragedy Penn Thomas

The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart • It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches, and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York • Thomas Penn's brilliant new telling of the wars of the roses takes us inside a conflict that fractured the nation for more than three decades. During this time, the house of York came to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers - Edward, George and Richard - who became the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty. Together, they looked invincible • But with Edward's ascendancy the brothers began to turn on one another, unleashing a catastrophic chain of rebellion, vendetta, fratricide, usurpation and regicide

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Penguin The Scottish Nation. A Modern History Devine T. M

Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to today's debates on the possibilities of Scottish independence • Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, this bestselling history places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future • Ranging from high politics to everyday life, The Scottish Nation is the most read modern history of Scotland at home and abroad: vital to understanding an ancient nation at a crucial time • 'Outstanding

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Penguin Alexander the Great Fox Robin Lane

Книга отмеченного наградами историка Робина Лейна Фокса "Александр Македонский" исследует массу противоречивых свидетельств и легенд, чтобы сосредоточиться на Александре как человеке своего времени • Жесткий, решительный, бесстрашный, Александр был прирожденным воином и правителем со страстными амбициями, который понимал важность завоеваний и неизведанного. Когда он умер в 323 году до н.э. в возрасте тридцати двух лет, его обширная империя занимала более двух миллионов квадратных миль, простираясь от Греции до Индии • Его достижения не имели себе равных - он проявил себя как лидер своих людей, основал восемнадцать новых городов и запечатлел лицо греческой культуры на Древнем Востоке • Книга на английском языке • From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time

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