Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been lured...

Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century —and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a...

This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era....

Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never...

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the...

If the Second World War was Hitler's war, the vast military conflict that engulfed the Mediterranean between 1940 and 1945 was...

This is the full story of the Nuremberg Trials, the most important criminal hearings ever heard, which established the principal...

Beginning with the strategic situation in 1943, this compelling tale recounts the circumstances that led to this decisive battle...

Marx Karl, Engels...

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"
When...

Double Emmy award-winning author Martin King takes you on an enthralling journey through the history of medicine on the...

The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land engagement of World War II. The German counter-attack, spearheaded by three Panzer...

Unsolved Mysteries of World War II. From the Nazi Ghost Train and 'Tokyo Rose' to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom...

Vietnam was the first war America lost on the ground. In this illustrated account, historian Nigel Cawthorne traces the conflict...

Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The...

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property...

The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene...

For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided...

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a...

Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And...

The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful...

We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines...

In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to...

A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of...

From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other

For the...

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan...

After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end....

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander...

In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth...