From the Roman conquest of 43 CE to the Norman conquest of 1066 and from the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, DK's "History of Britain and Ireland" traces the key events that shaped the societies living in the British Isles from the earliest times to th[...]

Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books this book focuses on Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Renowned especially for his style of painting that featured grids of black lines with blocks of primary colour, Mondrian was regarded as a true pioneer of abstract art. Featuring a fascinating introduct[...]

The stories of some of the most secret and outrageous operations that were conceived, many of which would have changed the course of history From a NATO nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to a Warsaw Pact land assault on Western Europe; from building an electric fence between North and South Vietna[...]

Michael Kerrigan beskriver i den här boken ett annorlunda krig där det som aldrig hände utgör själva konflikten. Motsättningen mellan de två supermakterna USA och Sovjetunionen satte under flera generationer sin prägel på en hel värld. I Europa levde man under antingen den ena eller den a[...]