London's Strangest Tales - Prijzen

Harrogate

This is the first comprehensive history of Harrogate to encompass both its pre-Conquest origins and the most recent development. The community began as an Anglo-Norse settlement and later became part...

The Trotula

The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to...

The Envoy

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six months, he repeatedly risked his life to save t...

The Royal Mile

There are several books about the Royal Mile, so why buy this particular one? The reason is, it covers everything you need to know - all the little closes, wynds and courts running off the main street...

Last Roll Call, the

The story of the last few months of World War II in the European Theater as told from the perspective of a single U.S. Army unit, the 29th Infantry Division. This book describes the humanitarian crisi...

The Northern Barbarians, 100 Bc-Ad 300

Forged in War

A historian offers a fresh analysis of the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, showing how the two leaders were by turns realists and idealists, consistent and inconsistent,...

Westwall

Von 1938 bis 1940 wurde der sogenannte Westwall zur Befestigung der Westgrenze und als kriegstaugliche Front im Dritten Reich im Auftrag Adolf Hitlers von der Organisation Todt erbaut. Zahlreiche Ruin...

Animal Encounters

Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encoun...

Curriculum, Culture and Citizenship Education in Wales

This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales. Following a brief history of Welsh education and a discussion of how contemporary cultur...

The Strangers Book

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that human...

The Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21

The book describes the armed forces of Peter the Great in its entirety, and covers in depth old Russian troops and irregulars, as well as Peter's new standing army (guards, infantry, dragoons, elite u...