From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part exploration of our national heritage, his wide-ranging selection of sites will stimulate, entertain, inform - and certainly provoke - a debate about the most significant moments in English history.

ISBN: 978-1-84854-609-7
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012

ISBN: 9781860467226
Издательство: Harvill Press
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semilegendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth`s powerful evocation of illustrious men and deeds captured the imagination of subsequent generations, and his influence can be traced through the works of Malory, Shakespeare, Dryden and Tennyson.

ISBN: 978-0-14-044170-3
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011

Серия: энциклопедические издания на английском языке по истории, мифологии стран. Книги иллюстрированы и снабжены комментариями. Издание полностью на английском языке.

ISBN: 978-1-84205-018-7
Издательство: Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Original / British English Britain is a small country but it has a long history. Two thousand years ago it was part of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s the British Empire was the biggest empire in world history. In the past, kings and queens fought to rule Britain. Discover how wars, revolutions and religion have changed its history. Read about the different countries of the United Kingdom and the great men and women who have shaped the British nation.

ISBN: 978-1-4058-8187-6
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011

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ISBN: 3-8228-2976-5
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: июль 2009

`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace`. Edward Gibbon called "The Histories" an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images`. Its author, Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous `Year of the Four Emperors` - AD 69 - when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. The ultimate triumph of Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian was only the prelude to further conflicts and disasters, with revolts among the Germans and Jews challenging the very foundations of...

ISBN: 978-0-19-954070-9
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 9780140443011
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 1975

This is the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of British history. The History of Britain & Ireland traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book offers a definitive visual chronicle of the most colourful and defining episodes in British history. Packed with visually arresting illustrations and clear, concise text, you can now explore the long and fascinating story of the British Isles. It includes profiles of key people in history such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred the Great, Charles Dickens, Queen Elizabeth I and Winston Churchill. The History of Britain & Ireland is ideal as a family reference for...

ISBN: 978-1-4053-6428-7
Издательство: Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of this best-selling book traces the development of one of the world`s richest literatures from the old english period to the present day. It adds new names, new titles and new secondary reading to reflect fresh developments in literature and society, and to bring the reader up to the present day.

ISBN: 978-0-230-00723-9
Издательство: Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: август 2011

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family`s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth - century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe - in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. Never was a ghost story so casually erudite, nor a historical travelogue such gripping entertainment. Impossible to blends fact and fantasy to remind...

ISBN: 978-0-316-06794-2
Дата выхода: август 2011

Roger Bartlett traces the history of Russia from its beginnings in Kiev Russia, through the Muscovite and Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, to the end of the twentieth-century. While offering a broad perspective on Russia`s historical development, Bartlett focuses on the origins of Russian political culture and the place of the majority peasant population in the Russian/Soviet polity.

ISBN: 978-0-333-63264-2
Дата выхода: январь 2012

Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you`ve ever experienced. You`re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men`s magazines-not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men`s hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form. Former men`s magazine editor Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in six massive and informative volumes. Why two volumes on the 1960s? Because when men`s magazines were finally accepted on the newsstands something had to fill their old niche under the...

ISBN: 3-8228-3635-4
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: июль 2009

The Guide has been described as the National Trust`s bible - and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust`s illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon`s childhood home Mendips, and William Morris` Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes, including the breathtaking coast of Cornwall, Snowdonia, the Peak District, and the lunar scenery of Stragford Lough, are set beside the Trust`s great gardens such as Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire. The Trust`s country houses of course feature in all their varied beauty - from the Tudor splendour of...

ISBN: 978-1-905400-13-3
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history`, as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of one-eyed men and gold-digging ants. This readable new translation is supplemented with expansive notes that provide readers the background that they need to appreciate the book in depth.

ISBN: 978-0-19-953566-8
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? This book delivers these themes.

ISBN: 978-1-84792-012-6
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Arthur Dent is already having a really bad day, even before the Earth gets demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. After that things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish and a book" Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable alien oddballs. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ISBN: 978-0-330-50811-7
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2009

When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after. Arthur Dent`s odyssey through space continues as he takes a trip to the end of time itself in search of a decent meal, and accidentally alters the future of the entire human race.

ISBN: 978-0-330-50881-0
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011

One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed ...The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.

ISBN: 9780575115347
Дата выхода: январь 2020

On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity - "The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy". It`s an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards, to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and his best friend has just announced that he`s an alien. At this moment, they`re hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed with the big, friendly words: don`t panic.

ISBN: 978-0-330-50853-7
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 9781509808311
Издательство: Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2016

The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy: One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekends just Restaurant at the End of the Universe: When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning , the Universe and Everything: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks that things cannot...

ISBN: 978-0-330-49204-1
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place THE HITCH HIKER`S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.

ISBN: 978-0-575-07682-2
Издательство: Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011

This one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler distills Ian Kershaw`s stunning two-volume study Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler: 1936–1945: Nemesis. From Hitler`s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw`s biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels` diaries, and illustrated with 151 photographs, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

ISBN: 978-1-60751-999-7
Издательство: Бератор-Пресс
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780440866626
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2006