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La Serenissima
The Story of Venice
- Head Of Zeus, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-506-7
EAN 9781789545067
'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.' Dream and romance have conditioned myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city's story embodies the hard reality of an independent state built on conquest, profit and entitlement and ...
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The Children of Athena
Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC AD 400
- Head Of Zeus, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 42,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80328-195-7
EAN 9781803281957
The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed ...
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Battle for the Island Kingdom
England's Destiny 1000-1066
- Osprey, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-5893-1
EAN 9781472858931
A rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown. A tale of loyalty, treason and military might. In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom, Battle for the Island Kingdom reveals the life-and-death struggle for power which changed the course ...
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Exploring the World
Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
- Orion, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0629-5
EAN 9781474606295
Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements by awarding its prestigious gold medals to those who have contributed most to our ...
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Borgata
Rise of Empire
- Orion, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0430-7
EAN 9781474604307
This gripping study of the modern Mafia, by former associate Louis Ferrante, provides a unique insider's account of this globally famous organisation. Ferrante's privileged knowledge details every aspect of Mafia life within the critical period 1985-2005, making this history unparalleled in its conception. Ferrante acquaints the reader with the Mafia's formative years - its origins ...
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- Faber, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-38351-1
EAN 9780571383511
In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. ...
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- Penguin, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-178-9
EAN 9781802061789
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLS Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst ...
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A History of Water
Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- Harper Collins, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835825-9
EAN 9780008358259
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-6774-8
EAN 9781526667748
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask: ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27266-6
EAN 9780300272666
A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent ...
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Judgement at Tokyo
World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
- Picador, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-1275-2
EAN 9781509812752
'Every so often, a new work emerges of such immense scholarship and weight that it really does add a significant difference to our understanding of the Second World War and its consequences. Judgement in Tokyo is one such, a monumental work in both scale and detail, beautifully constructed and written, leaving the reader not only ...
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The Lumumba Plot
The Inside Story of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- Random House USA, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 41,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5247-4881-4
EAN 9781524748814
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller about the U.S.sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful ...
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Justinian
Emperor, Soldier, Saint
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-6539-9
EAN 9781529365399
'A majestic, sparkling account of one of the most important rulers in history . . .this is modern history writing at its finest' Peter Frankopan'Superb and gripping. Epic historical biography that brings the emperor to life . . . filled with new ideas and revelations' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Effortlessly erudite, lucidly written, with a sharp eye ...
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Siena
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80110-115-8
EAN 9781801101158
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern ...
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Roman Ancient Origins
Stories Of People x{0026} Civilization
- Flame Tree Publishing, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80417-616-0
EAN 9781804176160
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Ancient Rome began as a village of humble dwellings on the Palatine and grew to be one of the mightiest and most successful empires of human history, before collapsing in the West under invasions of barbarian nations attracted by Rome's wealth and land, over a thousand years later. The legacy of Rome ...
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Venice
City of Pictures
- Thames & Hudson, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-0-500-02266-5
EAN 9780500022665
A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as 'La Serenissima' - a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements ...
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The Mad Emperor
Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
- Oneworld, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-685-5
EAN 9780861546855
Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the YearOn 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-350-12521-6
EAN 9781350125216
This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each year, and images of the town are familiar all around the ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-378-7
EAN 9781846683787
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER' Mary Beard has always had the sharpest eyes for telling detail and colourful anecdote' Sunday Times'Britain's most famous classicist ... at the peak of her powers' The Times'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' Telegraph'The reigning Queen of Classics' SpectatorWhat was it ...
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- Bantam, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78763-669-9
EAN 9781787636699
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the German forces resisted fiercely and the swift hoped-for ...
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