The Viking Great Army and the Making of England, Hardcover - Dawn Hadley

When the Viking Great Army swept through England between 865 and 878 CE, the course of English history was forever changed. The people of the Briti...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Julian RichardsIllustration(s): 80 Illustrations, black and white; 27 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages:...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The boo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Benjamin James BaillieIn 865 AD a huge Viking army appeared out of the mists of the North Sea from Scandinavia and lande...

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On th...

DescriptionThe Viking Conquest of England in 1016 saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edm...

Reducere. Lintong County, People's Republic of China, March 1974Three farmers are digging a well when suddenly their shovels hit something hard. It is a clay...

Reducere. Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again.In London, the government, alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Eur...

This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites. It represents what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket, and contains so...

Reducere. Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way. ...

Army of the Dead: A Film by Zach Snyder: The Making of the Film is the official companion to Zack Snyder's latest zombie film. From the director of...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

A collection of stories, anecdotes, quips and quotes that illustrate the unique nature of English humour. Tibballs is the author of The Grumpy Old ...

How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

Reducere. Dover Castle is one of England's greatest fortresses. At its heart lies the Great Tower, a huge Anglo-Norman keep that has dominated the White Clif...

The Making of the Roman Army explores how a small citizen militia guarding a village on the banks of the Tiber evolved into the professional Roman ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then keep reading...The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important ...

"The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same ag...

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Reducere. " My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is o...

DescriptionPhotographer Helen Shaw takes you on a fascinating journey celebrating the Pennines, that magnificent range of hills and moors which mak...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

When Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she "saw not much in those first few days besides...

Reducere. "A terrific biography....The dramatic story of how the American army that beat the British was forged has never been better told than in this remar...

DescriptionFor Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in whi...

DescriptionThe complete and illustrated history of Russia's armed forces from the Russian Revolution until the present day, covering both their inv...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

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Reducere. A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors--the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty--filled with...

Reducere. DescriptionThis riveting historical fiction depicts a soldier in Alexander the Great's army, and was written using the authentic Macedonian letters...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Army version "Map Reading and Land Navigation" is the simplest and most straightforward explanation of how to get around with just a...

Drawing on the latest archaeology and research this is the most detailed study in recent years of Alexander's Macedonian army, the most efficient a...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating life of William the Conqueror, then keep reading...The tale of William the Conqueror is written down by num...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...