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Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The ...
Julian Romane examines the campaigns of Julius Caesar throughout the civil wars that followed his famous crossing of the Rubicon, through to the defeat of ...
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide
A story of staggering scope ...
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial ...
'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of ...
This various, rich and enjoyable book tells the story of the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of ...
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir
Situated in the early ...
The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it ...
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century ...
In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During the 1990s ...
Japanese civilisation and its unique culture has often represented an enigma to the rest of the world. In this anthology a large number of experts ...