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This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians’ belief in the afterlife. Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary…

The new edition of this popular and widely-used American history textbook has been thoroughly updated to include a wealth of new scholarship on American diplomacy in the decade leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Features new material on th…

Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society – when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony – revealing a fuller, more complex picture of this fascinating period. Pres…

Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. Rejects conventional wisdom that t…

Париж 60-х годов прошлого века... Город "Вечной любви", "Безумного, безумного мира", "Чёрного тюльпана". В Венсенском лесу, в обстановке строжайшей секретности, работает лаборатория над совершенствованием препарата против человечности - "IC". Получит…

Франция, 16 век. Католики и гугеноты убивают друг друга во имя веры. Те и другие благородны и отважны. Те и другие готовы идти до конца. Кто в силах остановить многолетнюю бойню? Только вероотступник, способный увидеть человеческое лицо врага. Победи…

*НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЧХАРТИШВИЛИ ГРИГОРИЕМ ШАЛВОВИЧЕМ, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЧХАРТИШВИЛИ ГРИГОРИЯ ШАЛВОВИЧА. Этот роман, написанный в духе авантюрно-…

Проклятые, нечестивые, ворожеи, чаровницы, чертовки – как только их ни нарекали люди. Но самое известное название – «ведьмы». Столетиями никто не мог ответить на вопрос: кем же они были на самом деле? Прекрасными обольстительницами или жуткими старух…

Однажды к самому уважаемому одесскому ювелиру Карлу фон Мелю пожаловала очаровательная молодая дама, явно из высшего света. Представившись женой известного психиатра, она выбрала самые изысканные и дорогие украшения. Фон Мель и не догадывался, что пе…

Захватывающий сюжет романа переносит читателя в Киевскую Русь ХII века. Смелый и предприимчивый купец Дмитрий больше всего ценит человеческую жизнь и всегда сражается с теми, кто ее отнимает, будь то степной разбойник, морской пират или наемный убийц…

Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary c…

A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria HislopThe unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England …

Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents the German advance to the stalemate of the Gothic …

Three stunning novels from the bestselling author of Elegance and Innocence.THE FLIRT‘Unique situation available for attractive, well mannered, reasonably educated young man. Hours irregular. Pay generous. Discretion a must.’In a small office in Half…

A story spanning centuries. A long awaited revenge.In London, journalist Jo Clifford plans to debunk the belief in past-lives in a hard-hitting magazine piece. But her scepticism is shaken when a hypnotist forces her to relive the experiences of Mati…

The Sunday Times bestselling historical thrillers. Meet Matthew Hawkwood: soldier, spy, lover. A man as dangerous as the murderers, spies and traitors he hunts on the crime-ridden streets of London at the height of the Napoleonic wars.Book 1, RATCATC…

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time.‘This is an amazing story’ Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky h…

A masterly biography of Napoleon, concentrating on his private life, by the historian described by Stella Tillyard as ‘a master portraitist of great men’s private lives’ and by Amanda Foreman as ‘one of England’s greatest living historical writers’.M…

‘Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read’ Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamo…

From the bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler from 1935 – 1944In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the ins…