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...

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 ...

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

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

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

An illumination of the life of diplomat Roger Casement.

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

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

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

The Courage to Welcome

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 ...

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...

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

A journey through a wild landscape that echoes with legends of pirates, queens, Jesuits, buried t...

The first detailed account of Speyer's prominence in London society and his subsequent fall. This...

In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterpa...

An illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

This book will provides the first parallel biographies and history of two key Yugoslav politicians.

Stevenson ended his days living on the island of Samoa in luxury, but from where did his riches o...

Without a guide, driven only by his own curiosity, Klaus Reichert travels to Anatolia, Istanbul a...

Former British Prime Minister best known for the creation of the National Health Service.

A mountain peak above the Monastery of St Catherine in Egypt, Mount Sinai is best known as the si...

Part of the Prime Ministers Series, Callaghan was the Labour Prime Minister who was defeated by T...