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The year 2005 marks the bicentenary of the death of one of the greatest figures in German literature. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a playwright, poet, historian and literary critic.

A wide-ranging study of German history and culture to coincide with the British Museum exhibition, "Germany: Memories Of A Nation".

Value for money art monograph, whose paintings fetch 6-figure sums at auction - no competing title

Combining history and travel narrative, this journey around the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, the sea which gave birth to Western civilisation and has its own, distinct culture. In three cities the author finds traces of a vibrant and cosmopolitan heritage, and asks what these cities and their inhabitants owe to the sea.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is best known for taking Britain into the European Union.

July 11th. Two guards from the elite Serbian guard are found dead. Officials report they were the victims of a ritual suicide., but the parents of the dead men commission Sinisa Stojkovic to find the truth. Soon a terrible suspicion begins to build: could the crime be linked to the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre?

1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters secret talks with France about sending British forces to their aid in the event of German attack. The details were only revealed to the Cabinet and Prime Minister in 1911, by which point the 'hidden perspective' was firmly entrenched. Owen argues that the outbreak of war in 1914 was far from inevitable.

James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)was the Labour party's first prime minister, in 1924 and 1929-35.In 1900 he was the first secretary of the newly formed Labour Representation Committee (the original name for the party). Ramsay Macdonald became prime minister with Liberal support in January 1924. When a letter (probably a forgery) from Grigori Zinoviev, the head of the Communist Intrnational, urging armed revolution was published in the press ...

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When the cynical divorce lawyer Thomas Clarin finds himself at a table on the terrace of the Bellavista Hotel beside Thomas Loos, an eccentric, ageing philologist, they strike up an unlikely conversation. Soon Clarin's questions tease out stories from Loos' past, and as both men slowly reveal more of themselves.

Austria, emerging from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, faced war reparations and guilt in Paris.

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography about a topical historical figure

The first biography of Brian Hodgson, Britain's 'father of Himalayan studies', born in 1801.

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This offers a broad range of valuable information for tourists and also exploring the transformative history of Beijing, from ancient time to 21st century.

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography about a topical historical figure

Kathmandu is the greatest city of the Himalaya, a place where unique cultural practises that died out in India a thousand years ago have survived. It is a carnival of sexual license and hypocrisy, a jewel of world art, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of failed democracy, a case study in bungled Western intervention, and an environmental catastrophe. Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval time warp, Kathma...

The amazing life of Gustav Mannerheim, a life tragically and heroically intertwined with the twentieth century.

Mount Sinai examines the history of Hagia Koryphe (in Greek) and Jabal Musa (in Arabic): a mountain peak above the Monastery of St Catherine at South Sinai in Egypt. Known for centuries as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, as described in Exodus, the book explores the ways

A collection of interviews with great statesmen and office holders of Britain's yesteryear.