Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt.

A sweeping history of emotion that spans the decades, from renowned author Ferdinand Mount.

In this day and age, whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to play in it. In Soft, Ferdinand Mount tells the millennium-long history of emotion through vivid snapshots, masterly storytelling and bizarre historical anecdotes.

Revealing all the weird and wonderful ways people in the past expressed their grief and joy, Mount explores the shifting importa...

A compelling new joint biography of Churchill and de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a "burn-out society," a society in which fatigue has become the norm. How did this happen?

This pioneering book e...

A magisterial account of the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, and why its aftershocks continue to trouble the Norwegian national consciousness.

The prequel to Frank McDonough's Hitler Years series, covering the period of German history that led to the rise of Hitler in 1933.

Het Brabant van vroeger kennen we hoofdzakelijk via zwart-witfoto’s. In dit boek komt het oude Brabant echt tot leven, dankzij het fijne handwerk van colorist Gerard Kamp uit Breda, die eerder al het succesvolle boek Vergeten Nederland inkleurde. Opperbrabander Wim Daniëls schreef de informatieve en aanlokkelijke teksten bij de ingekleurde beelden. De foto’s nemen de lezer mee door de hele provincie Noord-Brabant, van de grote steden tot de kleine dorpjes. Historische gebeurt...