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The Plantagenets. The Kings Who Made England (William Collins)
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This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets - their story is the story of Britain.
England's greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings. Their remarkable reign saw England emerge from the Dark Ages to become a highly organised kingdom that spanned a vast expanse of Europe. Plantagenet rule saw the establishment of laws and creation of artworks, monuments and tombs which survive to this day, and continue to speak of their sophistication, brutality and secrets.
Dan Jones brings you a new vision of this battle-scarred history. From the Crusades, to King John's humbling over Magna Carta and the tragic reign of the last Plantagenet, Richard II - this is a blow-by-blow account of England's most thrilling age.
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The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (William Collins)
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A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.
No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new and horrific form of warfare that would come to define the twentieth century. At the same time it echoed the revolutionary aspirations of millions of Europeans and Americans after the painful years of the Great Depression.
In this authoritative history, Paul Preston vividly recounts the political ideals and military horrors of the Spanish Civil War – including the controversial bombing of Guernica – and tracks the emergence of General Franco’s brutal but extraordinarily durable fascist dictatorship.
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Си Цзиньпин и его истории о преодолении бедности в Китае. Гу Цин (Эксмо)
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В книге отражено развитие идей Генерального секретаря ЦК КПК Си Цзиньпина, направленных на борьбу с бедностью в Китае. Для издания была отобрана серия рассказов: они одновременно занимательны и серьёзны – наводят на размышления. Истории, записанные самим Генеральным секретарём и рассказанные о нём, о его государственной работе, охватывают период в полвека – с 1969-го по 2020-й год. События, о которых он повествует, происходят по всему Китаю. Си Цзиньпин объехал страну, побывав во всех бедных районах Поднебесной. Собранные в книге истории рассказывают о его общении с нуждающимися людьми и о возглавленной им кропотливой работе по искоренению бедности.
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Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945. Самая полная иллюстрированная энциклопедия. Исаев А.В., Драбкин А.В. (Издательство «Яуза»)
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Уникальная иллюстрированная энциклопедия от ведущих военных историков Алексея Исаева и Артема Драбкина. Самый полный иллюстрированный путеводитель по событиям 1941-1945 гг. Великая Отечественная до сих пор остается во многом «Неизвестной войной». Несмотря на большое количество книг об отдельных сражениях, самую кровопролитную войну в истории человечества нельзя осмыслить фрагментарно — только лишь охватив единым взглядом. Эта книга впервые предоставляет такую возможность. Это не просто хроника боевых действий, начиная с 22 июня 1941 года и заканчивая победным маем 45-го и капитуляцией Японии, а грандиозная панорама, позволяющая разглядеть Великую Отечественную войну целиком, объемно, не только в мельчайших деталях, но и во всем её подлинном трагизме и величии. Все события 1941-1945 годов описаны авторами на современном научном уровне, с опорой на рассекреченные архивные документы и широкий спектр иностранных источников. Перед читателем предстает история операций, роль в них людей и техники, максимально очищен ...
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Protestants. The Radicals Who Made the Modern World (William Collins)
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Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk – today, it includes a billion people across the globe.
The upheaval Martin Luther triggered inspired one of the most creative and destructive movements in human history. Protestants is the story of the men and women who made and remade this quarrelsome faith by demanding alarming new freedoms and experimenting in new systems of government. Inspired by their newly accessible Bibles, they transformed their inner lives, a transformation that spilled over into social upheavals and political revolutions. Alec Ryrie’s dazzling history explores how its restless energy made and is still making the modern world.
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Who Owns England? How We Lost Our Land, and How to Take It Back (William Collins)
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Who owns England?
Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once more.
This book has been a long time coming. Since 1086, in fact. For centuries, England's elite have covered up how they got their hands on millions of acres of our land, by constructing walls, burying surveys and more recently, sheltering behind offshore shell companies. But with the dawn of digital mapping and the Freedom of Information Act, it's becoming increasingly difficult for them to hide.
Trespassing through tightly-guarded country estates, ecologically ravaged grouse moors and empty Mayfair mansions, writer and activist Guy Shrubsole has used these 21st century tools to uncover a wealth of never-before-seen information about the people who own our land, to create the most comprehensive map of land ownership in England that h ...
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7 - Император Александр II. Его жизнь и царствование т1-2
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Александр II — российский император с 1855 г., вошедший в историю как царь-реформатор, под чьим руководством был подготовлен и проведен целый комплекс реформ: отмена крепостного права, судебная, земская, военная и многие другие реформы, открывавшие путь к изменениям государственного и общественного устройства страны. В царствование Александра II завершилось присоединение к России Кавказа (1864), Казахстана (1865), большей части Средней Азии (1865— 1881). На жизнь Александра II был совершен ряд покушений (1866, 1867, 1879, 1880), убит народовольцами. Автор настоящего фундаментального труда видел свою задачу в том, «чтобы собрать воедино многочисленные свидетельства об отдельных моментах и эпизодах жизни и деятельности государя Александра Николаевича и, дополнив их собственными изысканиями, составить точный и по возможности полный прагматический свод событий его царствования и личного в них участия или воздействия на них императора в области политики как внутренней, так и внешней». В основание своей работы ав ...
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7 - Смерть Цезаря. Хроника самого громкого убийства в древней истории
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Какому бы событию античной истории ни посвящал книгу Барри Штраус - будь то восстание Спартака, Троянская война, становление Римской империи, - он, в сущности, ищет ответ на один и тот же вопрос: какие лидеры нужны нам сегодня? Так где же искать примеры успешных руководителей, если не в греческой и римской древности? Вспомним, какими представлялись нам полководцы, мореплаватели и императоры Античности в историях, которые мы читали в детстве. То были мужественные воины и харизматичные начальники; одного движения их бровей хватало, чтобы повести за собой десятки тысяч преданных солдат. Автор предлагает внимательно присмотреться к этим великим людям прошлого. Почему же был убит Цезарь? Разумеется, по политическим причинам. Заговорщики хотели подарить Риму демократию, в то время как диктатор надеялся передать полномочия своей семье, особенно Октавиану - будущему императору Августу. Но после расправы всё пошло не по плану, причем совсем не так, как свидетельствовал о том Шекспир. Обо всем, чему только могут ...
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7 - Материнское право. Т3
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"Материнское право" - главный труд выдающегося швейцарского юриста, религиоведа античности Иоганна Якоба Бахофена (1815-1887). На основании обширного мифологического и исторического материала он стремится восстановить картину архаического общества, в котором власть и авторитете принадлежит женщине. Творчество Бахофена оказало влияние на столь разных авторов, как Ф.Энгельс, К.-Г.Юнг, Э.Фромм,Р.-М.Рильке,Т.Манн, И.Беньямин, и во многом превосходило развитие культурной антропологии XX веке. Книга будет интересна студентам, научным работника, всем, интересующимся мифологией и историей культуры.
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История русской армии. От Северной войны со Швецией до Туркестанских походов. 1700-1881 (Центрполиграф)
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История русской армии. От Северной войны со Швецией до Туркестанских походов. 1700-1881
В настоящую книгу военного историка А. Керсновского вошли материалы о кардинальной реорганизации армии в ходе реформ Петра I 1698 года, после чего были и суровые войны со Швецией, и с Францией, и Семилетняя и Крымская баталии, Туркестанские походы... Основная идея автора - показать самобытность русского военного искусства, мощь русского военного гения.
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Bloc Life. Stories from the Lost World of Communism (Random House)
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There was life before the fall.
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered.
From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight.
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Russia. A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (BBC books)
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Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad.
Combining in-depth research and interviews with his personal experiences as a former BBC Moscow correspondent, Sixsmith skilfully traces the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past, and explains the nation's seemingly split personality as the result of influences that have divided it for centuries.
A Sunday Times bestseller, Russia is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the complex political landscape of this country, and its unique place in the modern world.
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Ancient Rome. The Rise and Fall of an Empire (BBC books)
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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.
From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth of the age of the 'Caesars', the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion.
At the heart of this account are the dynamic, complex but flawed characters of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of
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Conquistadors (BBC books)
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Michael Wood's bestselling exploration of the Spanish conquest of South America, available for the first time in paperback
The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the 'New World', and few stories in history can match these for drama and endurance.
In Conquistadors, Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of the greatest of the Spanish adventurers travelling from the forests of Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, the deserts of North Mexico, the snowpeaks of the Andes and the heights of Machu Picchu. He experiences the epic journeys of Cortes, Pizarro, Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca, and explores the turbulent and terrifying events surrounding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.
Wood brings these stories to vivid life, highlighting both the heroic accomplishments and the complex mo ...
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The Story of Ireland (BBC books)
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Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities. Revisiting the major turning points in the Irish story, Hegarty looks not only at the dynamics of what happened in Ireland, but also at the role of events abroad.
With a new afterword that covers the dramatic events of 2011 - including the multi-billion-euro international bailout of Ireland's economy, Fianna Fail's electoral meltdown, and the first ever visit by a British sovereign to the Irish Republic - Story of Ireland is the history of a country shaped by and helping shape the world around it. Accompanying a landmark series coproduced by the BBC and RTE, and with an introduction by series presenter, Fergal Keane, Story of Ireland is an epic account of Ireland's history for an entire new generation.
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The Ascent Of Man (BBC books)
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Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.
First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they all are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature.
In this new paperback edition, The Ascent of Man inspires, influences and informs as profoundly as ever.
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If Only They Didn't Speak English. Notes From Trump's America (BBC books)
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'You see, if only they didn't speak English in America, then we'd treat it as a foreign country - and probably understand it a lot better'
‘the sanest man in America' - Bill Bryson
‘Jon Sopel nails it' - Emily Maitlis
**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power**
As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the time it's taken for a reality star to go from laughing stock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as ‘a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump.
Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangle ...
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Iraq. The Cost of War (Arrow Books)
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Tony Blair's decision to back George W. Bush in his attack on Iraq will go down as a defining moment for Britain. First as Ambassador to the UN, and then as Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK’s highest authority on the ground, Sir Jeremy Greenstock was centre stage in the tumultuous days leading up to the Iraq war and witnessed first-hand its tremendous impact. This extraordinary book is a record of what he saw.
Greenstock writes openly about US—UK relations, taking his readers behind closed doors and revealing the actions of key players in New York, Washington, London, Paris and the Middle East. To what extent was the Bush administration determined to attack Iraq come what may? What promise did Blair extract in exchange for backing Bush? Was the war legal? What effect is it continuing to have on Britain’s long-term relations with America and Europe?
Held back from publication when originally written in 2005, and now revised with a new foreword and epilogue following the publication of the Chilcot Report,
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Staring at God. Britain in the Great War (Windmill Books)
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A major new work of history on the profound changes in British society during the First World War
The Great War saw millions of men volunteer for or be recruited into the Army, their lives either cut short or overturned. Women were bereaved, enlisted to work in agriculture, government and engineering, yet still expected to hold together homes and families. But while the conflict caused social, economic and political devastation, it also provoked revolutionary change on the home front.
Simon Heffer uses vivid portraits to present a nuanced picture of a pivotal era. While the Great War caused loss on an appalling scale, it also advanced the emancipation of women, brought notions of better health care and education, and pointed the way to a less deferential, more democratic future.
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Freedom. How we lose it and how we fight back (Bantam Press)
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What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind.
He remembers what it is like to lack freedom - and his father's precarious three-day escape from China in a small rowing boat.
When authoritarianism makes gains around the world, demanding our silence as the price of doing business, it poses a challenge to democracy everywhere.
In this passionate rallying cry, Law argues that we must defend our freedom now or face losing it for ever.
'Now we all need to stand firm to defend our freedoms, to ensure truth is not determined by dictators. We are born free and as equals. As long as we believe in that, no one can take it away from us.'
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