Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall's 'The Most Momentous Stories from the History of the United States' is a captivating compilation of historical tales that engage readers through vivid storytelling and detailed accounts of key events in American history. Written in a simple yet engaging literary style, Marshall's book s...

My youth was another existence, to that of my old-age. Our society was a different world to the present day, which itself has a fleeting quality of existence about it, in a world of accelerating change. Or, as HG Wells famously put it: Civilisation is a race between education and catastrophe. In those days, the Gene...

This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of c...

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front? How far is the common perception of Red Army heroism and sacrifice borne out by historical reality? And what was the daily experience of the individual sold...

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the...

Strategemata, also known as Stratagems, is a work by the Roman author Frontinus who lived at the beginning of our era. Strategemata is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. This work was created as a manual for the use of generals. It is split in four chapters dealing with the...

Why did Lithuania’s dictator in the 1920s (the pro-Nazi Augustinas Voldemaras) kick the author out of the country for writing this seemingly harmless book? What was the significance of the fact that the author’s father tutored a teenage Lenin while both were in law school in Russia? And how was this ground-breaking ...

Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of media – including literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, addressing fiction and non-fiction, mass media and social media. The detailed introduction offers a short history of t...

The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich is the medieval hagiography written in 1173. It tells the life story of a real personality, known as William of Norwich, that was supposedly tortured and killed by the Jewish community in the Medieval city of Norwich. The author of the scripture heard and recorded the ...

We investigate the fascinating early Scandinavian history that occurred well before the Viking Era. Commencing with the Ice Age, which ended in northern Scandinavia around 10,000 BCE. Early Nordic human habitation arrived between 10,000 BCE and c.3,500 BCE. This was followed by the Stone Age, then came the Nordic Br...

The Campaign of Waterloo is a military history telling the story of the Battle of Waterloo. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the ...

The Story of Burnt Njáll, also known as Njáls saga, is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020. It considers blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth. The tale's main characters are the friends Njáll Thorgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnar Hámundarson, a warrior. They we...

This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. ...

世界愈是混亂無望，我們愈是不能放棄自由思考的能力。 繼《閱讀蒙田，是為了生活》、《我們在存在主義咖啡館》 暢銷作者莎拉．貝克威爾再次展演哲人們用生命獻唱的饗宴 看偉大作家、教育家與思想家們如何在災禍絕望中找尋光芒，為人類文明開創燦爛篇章 沙特說：「存在主義即人文主義。」莎拉．貝克威爾則認為，人文主義並不只是一種思潮，更...

William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' is a timeless tragedy set in ancient Rome, depicting the events leading up to and following the assassination of the title character. The play explores themes of power, betrayal, and the consequences of political ambition. Written in Shakespeare's signature blank verse, the dial...

In "The Best Speeches of Winston Churchill," readers are treated to a collection of powerful and iconic speeches delivered by the legendary British statesman. This book showcases Churchill's eloquent and stirring oratory style, which played a crucial role in shaping world events during some of the most tumultuous ti...