историческая литература

Примечание: История жизни и путешествий Христофора Колумба. Полный вариант заголовка: «A history of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. Vol. 4».

This is a science education book that discloses the age and the origins of the human civilization. It reveals the most mysterious and the most unknowable — aliens, visiting the ancient Earth, and their amazing genetic experiments, which they carried …

Полный вариант заголовка: «Our village : sketches of rural character and scenery / by Mary Russell Mitford».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The Town talk, the Fish pool, the Plebeian, the Old whig, the Spinster, etc. / By the authors of the „Tatler“, „Spectator“, and „Guardian“. „First collected“ in 1789 ; with notes and illustratins».

Примечание: История жизни и путешествий Христофора Колумба. Полный вариант заголовка: «A history of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus : Vol. 2 : in 4 volumes / by Washington Irving».

From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged – in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.The nineteenth century saw the creation of some o…

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.As he did in ‘Britain B.C.’ and ‘Britain A.D.’, eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground.The term 'Middle…

No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and intellectuals in the way that the conflict in Spain in 1936 did.The Spanish Civil War is burned into European consciousness, not simply because it prefigured the much larger…

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Thei…

‘What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about? A Coronation. What is delightful to have passed? A Coronation.’ Horace Warpole, 1761As a boy of sixteen, Roy Strong watched the grand procession carrying Queen Eliz…

This edition does not include illustrations.An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.‘English ambassadresses…

A comprehensive study – recently updated for the eBook edition – which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD.After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties for a century, the Roman Empire that Di…

The next book from the author of If They Knew, coming January 2019.Cambridge, 1986. Alex, Karen and Misty are an inseparable trio at Cambridge University – one can never be found far from the others. But when Alex dies suddenly, the remaining two fri…

A vibrant thriller of adventure, suspense and mystery set in the last quarter of the XIX century and the First World War. A prominent archaeologist disappears under strange circumstances during the First World War as armies battle an endless front en…

An Italian-style Western On a day like any other in the morally depraved town of Little Pit, a dusty man on a horse rides up. The man is in a hurry and carrying with him a suspicious package. Hugg Badfinger cannot resist the temptation to discover wh…

The documentary and art photostory about St. Petersburg illustrated more than two tens color photos, is, on — to a being, peculiar «business card» at the first acquaintance to The Great City. It acquaints the reader not only with man-made beauty of t…