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An adventurous journey in an awakening country

The treaties signed by Romania at the end of the war dramatically shifted the geo-political nature of southeastern Europe.

This book deals with five countries -- Siam Vietnam, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines -- and the turbulent but influential years 1919-21.

A love story set against the backdrop of a conservative Druze region of southern Syria.

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Without a guide, driven only by his own curiosity, Klaus Reichert travels to Anatolia, Istanbul and the Aegean coast. He explores the strip of land where Adam and Eve are said to have settled after their expulsion from Eden and where Moses struck water from a stone. He talks to an old stonemason and a young teacher, following in the footsteps of the brilliant architect Mimar Sinan, and probes the mysteries of his mosques. He visits one of the ...

Consequences of Peace: the Versailles Settlements - their aftermath and legacy.

A unique history of Bulgaria in the first half of the twentieth century.

A vivid travelogue of the pilgrimage, taking in both the natural beauty along the way, as well as the physical limitations met.

Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba and Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life and work. This book tells how, throughout his life, Hemingway visited Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Cortina in the Italian Alps, but most of all loved Venice and the Veneto. He first visited during the First World War (the background to A Farewell to Arms) and later after the Second World War (Across the River and Into the Trees). When Men Wi...

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography

A broad and deatiled study of Brazil's First Republic and its representation at Versailles.

Prime Minister known for announcing 'that Britain favoured a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine'.

A unique look at the literary landscape of London and the writers who have lived and worked there.

A beautiful travelogue of a journey around the Princes Islands, Istanbul's archipelago in the sea of Marmara.

Not even the English are keen to explain what England actually is. Holger Ehling takes us on a journey to iconic places, from London to Jarrow, from Stonehenge to the Eden Project, from Shakespeare's Globe to the marvels of Blackpool, pondering along the way about what it is that makes these places so quintessentially English.

Accessible and affordable biography with over 30 full-color plates

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A biography of the creator of one of the best-known characters in detective fiction, Inspector Maigret, the pipe-smoking Parisian police detective

Biography of the last British Prime Minister of the 20th Century.