Derzhavin: A Biography (Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies)
Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743–1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia—imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with...
View ArticleSpy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
Chosen by William Safire in the New York Times to be the publishing sleeper-seller of the year for 2007. In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the...
View ArticleThe Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
King for fifty years (1327—77), Edward III changed the face of England. He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father’s throne; he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years,...
View ArticleChristopher Wren (Very Interesting People)
Definitive, concise, and very interesting…From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain’s most fascinating...
View ArticleA Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire (Empires in...
When Alfred Milner (1854-1925) was knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, ‘patriotism for our common country’. By this he meant the wider patriotism of the British Empire, the furthering of...
View ArticleThe Perfect King
King for 50 years (1327-77), Edward III – like Elizabeth and Victoria after him – embodied the values of his age. He re-made England and forged a nation out of war.
View ArticleGothic Kings of Britain: The Lives of 31 Medieval Rulers, 1016-1399
This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government...
View ArticleEduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain
A dramatic biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo...
View ArticleSpymaster: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system....
View ArticleThe Tudors: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Guy’s Very Short Introduction to The Tudors is the most authoritative short introduction to this age in...
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