The first ever guide to understanding Aztec hieroglyphs: a groundbreaking publication built on a lifetime of research by a world expert.

An innovative illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe.

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933 to 1945 provides a year-by-year narrative, fully illustrated, of the road Adolf Hitler mapped out to achieve his dream - the destruction of the European Jewish population.

An account of one of the most famous manuscripts in the world.

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schloegel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe's borderland and in Russia's shadow. As well as exploring this present-day confrontation, Schloegel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine's major cities.

In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.

The history of medieval Britain through twelve remarkable illuminated manuscripts.

Een nieuwe kleine wereldgeschiedenis over de 50 meest invloedrijke plekken

Ontdek de meest indrukwekkende gebeurtenissen uit onze wereldgeschiedenis, verteld aan de hand van de 50 belangrijkste plekken van de wereld. In dit boek biedt historicus Jacob Field een fascinerende nieuwe kijk op de geschiedenis van onze planeet: van de Olduvaikloof in Tanzania waar een van de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten is gedaan tot het CERN-laboratorium in Genève, waar revolutionaire technologie&e...