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(Paperback, 4th edition)
By: Winston Churchill
ISBN: 9780141441757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.
(Paperback)
By: Quintus Curtius Rufus
ISBN: 9780140444124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1985
UK Publication Date: 31st May 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Edward Gibbon
ISBN: 9780140433944
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1996
UK Publication Date: 7th March 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (the second and third volumes were originally published in 1781), is one of the most famous texts in the English language. David Womersley's annotated edition returns to manuscript and original sources.
(Paperback)
By: Edward Gibbon
ISBN: 9780140433937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1996
UK Publication Date: 7th March 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (the first volume was originally published in 1776), is one of the most famous texts in the English language. David Womersley's annotated edition returns to manuscript and original sources.
(Paperback)
By: Geoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN: 9780140441703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1978
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. This title portrays legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur.
(Paperback)
By: Peter H. Wilson
ISBN: 9780141047478
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Beer
ISBN: 9780241957523
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Callum G. Brown
ISBN: 9781350136601
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9780571274598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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the captains populating the pages of Shakespeare - Fastolf, Montagu, Talbot, Dunois and, above all, the extraordinary figure of Joan of Arc who changed the course of the war in a few weeks at the age of seventeen.
'The Hundred Years War ends in England's agonising defeat - but triumph for Jonathan Sumption .
(Hardback)
By: Professor Glenda Sluga
ISBN: 9780691208213
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Bruce de Mesquita
ISBN: 9781541768758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2022
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world
(Paperback)
By: Bruce de Mesquita
ISBN: 9781541774391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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In the tradition of Sapiens and Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world
(Paperback, Main)
By: Arkady Ostrovsky
ISBN: 9780857891600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Revised and updated: the timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, with a new preface examining Putin's influence on the US election and exploring how his methods - weaponizing the media and serving up fake news - came to enter Western politics.
(Paperback)
By: Suzannah Lipscomb
ISBN: 9781788545051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A beautifully produced account of the creation, impact and legacy of one of the most important documents of the Tudor period the last will and testament of Henry VIII.
(Hardback)
By: Julie Kalman
ISBN: 9780691230153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Stothard
ISBN: 9781474613163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A new history of the fall of the Roman republic, told through the gripping story of Caesar's longest-surviving assassin
(Paperback)
By: Tom Lawson
ISBN: 9781350227910
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: John Callow
ISBN: 9781350387126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ammianus Marcellinus
ISBN: 9780140444063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1986
UK Publication Date: 29th May 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A fourth century army officer recounts the history of Rome during the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian and Valens.
(Hardback)
By: Natasha Wheatley
ISBN: 9780691244075
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Eberhard Illner
ISBN: 9781350272675
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Seb Falk
ISBN: 9780141989679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780099578697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback, Main)
By: Sophie Shorland
ISBN: 9781838956394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An enthralling portrait of Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II, which brings her struggles vividly to life and reveals her forgotten place in British history.
