The author of Europe's Tragedy, the definitive book on the Thirty Years War, has written a powerful narrative of five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change in G... read more
The Great Game has not changed though the players have: Keay looks at the history of this contested and remote area and at those that have roamed its wildernesses.
A haunting glimpse of the officers and sailors of the Erebus and the Terror on their ill-fated expedition, and of the hopes and fears of their colleagues and families when the Erebus softly ... read more
Siena's medieval golden age was brought to a grisly end by an appalling visitation of the plague in 1348. Nevertheless, the republic of Siena lasted for four hundred years, from the C12th un... read more
An A-Z of horrors, compulsions and pleasures. We hope it includes galanthomania, in honour of a customer on whom we dote, who only travels in pursuit of snowdrops.