An award-winning New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.

A brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

Geert Mak’s latest book, The many lives of Jan Six, has all the outstanding qualities of his other books: erudite, meticulously researched, but above all beautifully written. Mak

is a great story-teller and a tireless student of salient facts; this priceless combination has resulted in a literary gem.’ Ian Buruma – editor of The New York Review of Books

In 1654 the first Jan Six had his portrait painted by his friend Rembrandt van Rijn. It is considered the most beautiful portrait Rembr...

The Battle for The Hague-1940 is the story of the first great airborne operation in history. The plan conceived by Adolf Hitler to capture The Hague by suprise, was carried out as part of the Blitzkrieg offensive in Western Europen in may 1940. It became a dismal failure. It also became the only defeat of importance the Germans suffered during their campaign.

Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities. This volume adds a new global perspective to the history of the Philippines by juxtaposing Iberian, Chinese and Islamic perspectives. By navigating various underexplored archival resources, senior and junior scholars from Asia, Europe and the A...

Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. Like an atlas it provides information, in an accessible format, on the mai...

The New Testament thus contains mystical and esoteric knowledge, myths, philosophies and history. When we understand their coding technique, which is very reminiscent of story sums / word problems, we can begin to decipher the Bible.

And therefore we can be taught such disciplines as arithmetic, plane geometry, spatial geometry, astronomy, and harmony in the same (esoteric) way as the Ptolemaic Greek philosophers taught at their academies.

For example the second line from John 21:1-14.

There ...