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"Тёмные века" часто считают периодом варварства и невежества, но именно они стали горнилом, в котором была выкована современная Европа • Исторический труд Криса Уикхема рассказывает о значимости для истории и культуры этого времени и живших тогда народов - готов, франков, вандалов, византийцев, арабов, англосаксов и викингов. События от падения Римской империи до возникновения новых европейских государств, разворачивающиеся на просторах от Ирландии до Константинополя и от Балтийского моря до Средиземноморья - эта выдающаяся книга поможет вам понять эпоху, ознаменованную как войнами и смутой, так и преемственностью эпох, творчеством и великими достижениями • Книга на английском языке • The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created

Ни одна другая книга на английском языке не объясняет всю хаотичность итальянской истории так, как эта • В книге «В поисках Италии» прослеживается вся история итальянского полуострова в прекрасном читабельном стиле. В ней полно хорошо подобранных историй и наблюдений из личного опыта, а также представлены истории многих великих деятелей прошлого, от Цицерона и Вергилия до Данте и Медичи, от Кавура и Верди до противоречивых политических деятелей двадцатого века. Книга дает ясное представление о Рисорджименто, ключевом событии в современной итальянской истории, развеивая мифы ,некогда казавшиеся убедительными, которые выросли вокруг него • Гилмор показывает, что слава Италии всегда заключалась в ее регионах с их самобытным искусством, гражданской культурой, кухней, и жители, которые считали себя не просто итальянцами, а скорее тосканцами и венецианцами, сицилийцами и лангобардами, неаполитанцами и генуэзцами

Новая история тридцатилетней войны" • Ужасающая серия конфликтов, известная как Тридцатилетняя война (1618-1648), разорвала сердце Европы, убив, возможно, четверть всех немцев и опустошив целые районы Центральной Европы до такой степени, что многие города и регионы так и не восстановились. Все крупные европейские державы были активно вовлечены в войну • Книга Питера Уилсона "Трагедия Европы. Новая история тридцатилетней войны" - это крупный труд, первая новая история войны за последнее поколение и увлекательная, блестяще написанная попытка объяснить убедительную череду событий. Великая сила Уилсона в том, что он позволяет читателю понять трагедию множества мотивов, которые позволили правителям рисковать будущим своих стран с такими ужасающими результатами

21 октября 1967 года, Вашингтон, округ Колумбия. От 20 000 до 200 000 протестующих маршируют, чтобы положить конец войне во Вьетнаме, в то время как над головой парят вертолеты, а федеральные маршалы и солдаты с примкнутыми штыками ждут их на ступенях Пентагона. Среди участников марша - Норман Мейлер. Из его собственного исключительного участия в событиях дня и его еще более экстраординарного восприятия рождается классическая работа, которая разрушает рамки традиционного репортажа. Интеллектуалы и хиппи, священнослужители и копы, поэты и армейские депутаты напоняют страницы книги, в которой факты сочетаются с художественными приемами, чтобы создать волнующую реальность истины • Книга Нормана Мейлера "Армии ночи. История как роман. Роман как история" уникально и незабываемо запечатлели волну любви и ярости шестидесятых на ее гребне и выдающегося гения на его пике

What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history, and the global challenges we face as a result

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

You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story • From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organisation - heralding 'The Age of the Train' - and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world • Born into post-war austerity, traumatised, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hellbent on selling it off • Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation • British Rail is ripe for a new history

The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan • For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous predators waiting to finish it off. Following the Ottoman decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers the British, French and Russians hatched a plan to finish the Ottomans off: an ambitious and unprecedented invasion of Gallipoli • Eugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly understood fronts of the First World War. Despite fighting back with great skill and ferocity against the Allied onslaught and humiliating the British both at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia (Iraq), the Ottomans were ultimately defeated, clearing the way for the making, for better or worse, of a new Middle East which has endured to the present

The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire of his own making, translated from the Greej by Aubrey de Selincourt, and revised with an introduction and notes by J.R. Hamilton in Penguin Classics • Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror. He tells of Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his total defeat of Persia and his campaigns through Egypt, India and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path

Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to escape danger, to find a better life or as a result of deliberate policy, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, or from outside the continent altogether • Peter Gatrell's powerful new book is the first to bring these stories together into one place. He creates a compelling narrative bracketed by two nightmarish periods: the great convulsions following the fall of the Third Reich and the mass attempts in the 2010s by migrants to cross the Mediterranean into Europe • "The Unsettling of Europe" is a new history of the continent, charting the ever-changing arguments about the desirability or otherwise of migrants and their central role in Europe's post-1945 prosperity

Having lived in France, Italy, the Greek islands and Egypt, Elizabeth David has perfected the art of Mediterranean cooking • In her classic cookbook she gives us hearty pasta dishes from Italy; aromatic and tangy salads from Turkey and Greece; and tasty seafood and saffron dishes from Spain • With delicious dishes including • - Tomato and Shellfish Soup • - Greek Spinach Pie • - Toulouse-Style Cassoulet • - Valencian Paella • - Turkish Salad Dressing • - Syrian Fish Sauce • You will be taken on a tasting tour of the Mediterranean from your own kitchen • Whether it is the simplicity of hummus or the delicious blending of flavours found in plates of ratatouille or paella, Elizabeth David's wonderful recipes in A Book of Mediterranean Food are imbued with all the delights of the sunny south

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' • The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling of a beautiful untruth, is the ultimate aim of art • One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists