One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Rop - Prijzen

Victorian Marriage

Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) was a famous historian and the first editor of the English Historical Review. His intelligence and energy made an impression upon everyone he met. Admired by Queen Victor...

Six Wives

No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, Dav...

The Victim's Fortune

Two reporters from the Financial Times piece together the compelling story of the campaign on the part of a group of attorneys, politicians, and Jewish advocates to root out money looted by the Nazis...

Black and British

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times In this vital re-examinatio...

Unexplained Mysteries of World War II

As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime. --William B. Breuer, inThe annals of World War II are mined with captivating cases of strange coincidences, ominous p...

A Year in Paris

A NEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING PICK! From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris...

Adolf Rading in Breslau

The South Downs

The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generatio...

Swan Song

Nominated as one of America&;s best-loved novels by PBS&;s The Great American Read. New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon&;s prescient and &;shocking&; (John Saul) vision of a post-apocaly...

We

'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'O...

Weep No More, My Lady

Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhatt...

The Fall of Moscow Station

When a body with Russian military tattoos is found floating in a lake outside Berlin, the CIA immediately takes notice. The body is identified as the director of Russia’s Foundation for Advanced Nucle...