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Platone in Italia

Vincenzo Cuoco

In questo audace esperimento di filosofia e narrativa, Vincenzo Cuoco - l'autore del celebre "Saggio sulla Rivoluzione Napoletana", parimenti edito da Cactus - immagina un viaggio in Italia compiuto dal giovane Platone. Attraverso un fitto scambio di lettere tra il...

D-Day Remembered

Richard Holmes , Imperial War Museum

80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with Imperial War MuseumsRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's...

The Red Hotel

Alan Philps

Magnificent Rebels

Andrea Wulf

In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act...

Empires of the Normans

Levi Roach

'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and...

A Brief History of the Caribbean

Jeremy Black

A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its mainland coastal...

Checkmate in Berlin

Giles Milton

'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with four all-powerful...

John Law

James Buchan

At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On...

Madrid

Hugh Thomas

The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political...

Amsterdam

Russell Shorto

'Standard kit for anyone visiting the city' Guardian 'Rich and eventful ... a book that easily fuses large cultural trends with intimately personal stories' New York Times'The story of a great city that has shaped the soul of the world. Masterful reporting, vivid...

Fortress Malta

James Holland

The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there.In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the...

Achtung Panzer!

Heinz Guderian

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World...

The King's Mistress

Claudia Gold

As the mistress and possible secret wife of George I, Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, was England's first Georgian queen in all but name. Her nickname amongst the English, who loathed her and found her scrawny, was 'the Maypole'. Others sources complained she...

Teoria e storia della storiografia

Croce Benedetto

Nell'opinione di Croce, "Teoria e storia della storiografia" non era «una nuova parte sistematica» della "Filosofia dello spirito", ma piuttosto un approfondimento della teoria della storiografia già delineata in opere passate. Il nuovo libro costituiva, insomma,...