Sir Robert Peel - Prijzen

Colossus Reborn

In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941....

Deliverance at Diepholz

With candor and humor, American infantryman Jack Dower describes his narly fifteen months spent as an unwilling guest of the Third Reich after his company lost its way behind enemy lines near Anzio, I...

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes...

Echoes From The Holocaust

During the most difficult times of World War II, Mira Kimmelman writes, I wondered whether the world really knew what was happening to us. I lived in total isolation, not knowing what was taking pla...

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Krays: The Final Word

Think you know everything about the Krays? Think again. Britain's most infamous criminals: the Kray twins. The extent of their activities has always been uncertain. But now, it is time for the con...

John Stuart Mill

A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and on...

Constantine the Emperor

No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along...

Sworn

As plague and famine scourge the Winter Kingdoms, a vast invasion force is mustering from beyond the Northern Sea. And at its heart, a dark spirit mage wields the blood magic of ancient, vanquished go...

Tender Buttons

This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein's corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes out...

Rapid Plus 3B The Lion's Skin

The King sets Salan the task of getting the skin of the Lion of Jedda.

Inuyashiki 4

Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he's constantly ignored and disrespecte...