Overview :It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epi... Read More
Overview :Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents a... Read More
Overview :Explore the fascinating world of "Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity" by Richard Alfred Davenport, a compelling exploration of ... Read More
Overview :"The history of the Bastile, and of its principal captives" by R. A. Davenport offers a penetrating exploration into one of history's most f... Read More
Overview :The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian,... Read More
Overview :Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalties of their central figures: hers grand, imperial an... Read More
Overview :John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the twentieth century's most influential economist. His ideas inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt to launch t... Read More
Overview :“The Life Of Ali Pacha, Of Janina” recounts the tumultuous life and times of Ali Pasha, the powerful and controversi... Read More
Overview :All Souls College Oxford was one of the meeting points of English public intellectuals in the twentieth century. Its Fellows prided themselv... Read More
Overview :WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profu... Read More
Overview :"An astonishing work."--Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of "Downton Abbey""A book well worthy of marking the centenary of th... Read More
Overview :What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected doc... Read More
Overview : Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed an... Read More