Every single one of the letters you're reading right now can tell a fascinating story, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey to reach this very page. The English alphabet is a tool that we've inherited down the centuries from ancient creators around the world.

The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.

If misrepresented, the past can cause confusion, conflict and tragedy. With care, it can help us to understand the present. Award-winning historian Margaret MacMillan proves that history really does matter.

Israel: An Anti-Textbook to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth is The Case for Israel for fans of Drunk History and the Skimm: a personal, accessible, conversational “anti-textbook” moving chronologically from Biblical times to today, from one of Israel's most prominent activists and celebrities—now in trade paperback!

When in June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the SovietUnion, the SS appealed to young men in occupied areasto support the crusade against Bolshevism. At least 20.000Dutchmen came forward to put their names down forthis cause. The vast majority of them served in what wasfirst called the legion, later the brigade and later still the'Nederland' division. In From Leningrad to Berlin the historyof the largest Dutch Waffen-SS unit on the easternfront is described for the first time.The main sources draw...

If you are a parent or if you have young children or teenagers who are considering a career as a fashion model or if they want to work in the entertainment industry, read this book and keep your children as far away from the fashion industry, Hollywood and other entertainment industries as possible.

In this book Nathalie tells her story as a fashion model who has been celebrated for her striking physical beauty. She did shootings for many prestigious magazines and photographers, and she has b...

It’s December 1944, and knowing they wouldn’t be home for Christmas, a handful of battle weary GIs decide to throw a holiday party for the children of Wiltz, Luxembourg.

Ten Days later the town is all but destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge, and in the years that followed, Wiltz never forgot the kindness and generosity of those soldiers that one St. Nicolas Day.

For thirty years the people of Wiltz searched for those soldiers, and especially the American St. Nicolas, in hopes of brin...

In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner’s The Written World, Maya Jasanoff’s The Dawn Watch,...

In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of the Netherlands were established, slavery was still very much part of the nation’s global imperial structures. Dutch families, institutions, and governments are increasingly interested in the role their predecessors played in this history of colonialism and enslavement.

This book is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with slavery, both as a fac...