Who was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist; traveller, and write...

In his first book, Simon McDonald assumes that thinking about leadership before you lead helps yo...

Simone Veil was a French politician who became the fist President of the European Union. In her l...

Who was Arminius Vámbéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish auto-didact; a linguist, traveller, and writ...

Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from ...

An illumination of the life of diplomat Roger Casement.

More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter...

As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy h...

As one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy h...

The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspirational pa...

Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced to eva...

A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust of those he meets, Muhling's cast of ...

The Courage to Welcome

A concise and comprehensive biography of Mao Zedong, published to coincide with the fiftieth anni...

When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided...

'Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, so bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht' - dieses Diktum Heinric...

Is there any such thing as a European identity? Amidst all the kaleidoscopic variety what - if an...

Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate, einer der besten Kenner des afrikanischen Kontinents, schildert die U...

Fronted by one of the world's most iconic doors, 10 Downing Street is the home and office of the ...

Apulia (or Puglia) is the heel of Italy, stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. Its l...

Until the First World War, the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East for four centuries. B...

Provides a unique perspective of a Western pilgrim of Islamic faith, as he travels to the holy si...

With almost 13 million residents, Tokyo is now as much an icon of modernity as it is a city, with...

Collected notes from avid walker Christopher Somerville's treks through the British countryside.

German Jerusalem is a story of a culturally distinctive community, and a fascinating biography of...

The first major biography of the impresario Domenico Barbaja, accompanying a new Naxos album of B...

A history of relations between Britain and Russia from the nineteenth century to the present.

A man who shares his name with a famous singer must grapple with his identity, purpose, and love....

As the seat of prince-bishops it found wealth and power, as the birthplace of Mozart it found fam...

Exciting new portrait featuring the racy world of opera and dance in Paris of the 1920s.

A beautiful travelogue of a journey around the Princes Islands, Istanbul's archipelago in the sea...

Consequences of Peace: the Versailles Settlements - their aftermath and legacy.

A celebration of Spain, with personal memories and descriptions of culture, food and traditions.

The amazing life of Gustav Mannerheim, a life tragically and heroically intertwined with the twen...

A harrowing first-hand account of the first months in the Syrian revolution. Because of the outsp...

The great crossroads, Istanbul has absorbed several millennia of different influences; it is both...

A poetic and historical travelogue of Syracuse, Sicily.

James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)was the Labour party's first prime minister, in 1924 and 1929-3...

'The historian,' wrote E. L. Doctorow, 'will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you w...

Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) was one of the most famous leaders of the African Independence Movement...

Paul Hymans was the champion and voice of the small states at the Paris Peace Conference.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is best known for taking Britain into the European Union.

Partition tells us how the idea of dividing Ireland came about, how it gained acceptance and popu...

First published in 2016 by Carl hanser Verlag as Das Meadchen mit dem Fingerhut.

A broad and deatiled study of Brazil's First Republic and its representation at Versailles.

Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs o...

Asian Absences is a contemplative and lyrical narrative of a traveler whose spiritual journey tak...