The recipient of rave reviews, this book is an invaluable one volume desk reference as well as fascinating history, with a style of writing that is enjoyable, accessible, and informative.
Land of fancy, people with "brave heart" - this book tells you how the Scots become the first modern nation and literate society, which can never be neglected in human history.
Comprehensive and well written, informative but entertaining – this book covers the history of the Royal Navy and its role in stopping Napoleon, projecting British power and helping colonial expansion around the world.
A true story collected from the yarns of Easy Company survivors that tells the tale of brave citizen soldiers and their experiences as they battle the Nazi menace – The world will always owe a debt of gratitude to the men who "laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom"!
There are those that would curse the darkness, others who would light a candle. Iris chose to bring past crimes and past injustices into the light - she lit a flame and passed it to others.
This thoroughly modern treatise brings the latest thinking and information to the man-in-the-street which is the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language.
A demanding, vast, heavyweight of a book is what this is - a remarkable narrative of the grand intellectual venture of humankind, rich in fascinating, dramatic details.
