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中世の無骨な要塞がいかにして絢爛豪華な王宮へと変貌し、血塗られた革命を経て世界最高峰の美の殿堂へと昇華したのか、その数奇な運命をドラマチックな歴史絵巻として紐解きます。通勤電車の窓外の景色をパリの石...

古代ギリシャ世界を二分したアテネとスパルタの壮絶な覇権争いを通して、盤石に見えた大国の繁栄がいかにして内部から崩壊していくのかを約二時間で鮮やかに描き出します。毎日の通勤電車や夜の静かなリラックスタ...

血塗られた王位継承と過酷な婚姻外交が織りなす中世ヨーロッパの権力闘争が、あなたの毎日の通勤時間を壮大な歴史ドラマの舞台へと変貌させます。イングランドとスコットランド、二つの王国が衝突する激動の時代に...

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived. From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle...

血と暴力、そして激しい階級闘争が渦巻く古代ギリシャの小さな都市国家はいかにして民主主義という奇跡を生み出したのか。完成された理想郷ではなく、泥臭い試行錯誤の末に勝ち取られた自治の真の姿がここにありま...

失業のどん底から人々を救った見せかけの好景気の裏で、独裁体制がいかに日々のパンと引き換えに市民の自由を奪い尽くしたのか、戦争経済の実態を解剖します。朝の通勤時やじっくりと思索に耽る夜、現代社会への危...

東西から迫る連合軍とソ連軍の圧倒的な圧力のなか、軍事的敗北と独裁体制の狂気が交錯する第二次世界大戦末期のナチス崩壊劇を追う重厚な歴史ノンフィクションです。日々の通勤や集中したい時間帯に知的な探求心を...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. How did a solitary, taciturn young man of humble origins transform into the military strategist who rewrote the history of Europe? Immerse yourself in the life of the man who forged an epic destiny through this revealing audiobook. From the wild...

In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine - both good and bad - of the present day. She looks at the shifting influences on the national diet as new ideas...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of the international bestseller Beyond the Wall, a history of interwar Germany told through the town of Weimar, the cultural capital that was both the birthplace of the country’s first full democracy and a launchpad for the Nazis. “Katja Hoyer is a...

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity...

千年以上続いた巨大帝国の命運が尽きる1453年の壮絶な包囲戦を追体験し、世界史が塗り替えられる決定的瞬間を目撃する没入型歴史ドキュメント。日々の通勤時間を時空を超えた壮大な知的探求の旅に変え、静かな夜の...

The French Revolution in San Domingo by Lothrop Stoddard is a captivating and meticulously researched classic that vividly chronicles the dramatic, horrifying chaos of France's richest colony during the revolutionary pandemonium of the 1790s. Once known as San Domingue (Santo Domingo), the prosperous French-speaking portion of the island eventually became the independent nation of Haiti at the end of the revolutionary period.

Churchill fu protagonista di una eccezionale gamma di attività ed esperienze: nominato ufficiale durante il regno della regina Vittoria, partecipò alle guerre coloniali in Africa e alle prime fasi di sviluppo dell'aviazione, ma soprattutto guidò l'Impero britannico nella sua ora più buia, durante i giorni cupi e gloriosi della Seconda guerra mondiale.

Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count...

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in...

A captivating history of the French Revolution. Concise, convincing and exciting, The French Revolution is Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French...

A thrilling history of Florence's most famous family, the Medicis, from thrilling heights to the end of an astonishing era. At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence.

Como culminación de cincuenta años de estudio e investigación sobre la antigua Roma, Mary Beard, profesora de la Universidad de Cambridge, nos ofrece una magistral visión de conjunto de su historia: una historia que, nos dice, «al cabo de dos mil años, sigue siendo la base de nuestra...