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The Iliad is one of the most enduring creations of Western Civilization and was originally written to be recited or chanted to the accompaniment of various instruments. Properly performed, this work today is just as meaningful, just as powerful, and just as entertaining as it was in the ninth century BC, and it casts its spell upon modern listeners with the same raw intensity as it did upon the people of ancient times.

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.

In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins' unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.

George Friedman has forecasted the coming trends (politics, technology, population, and culture) of the next century in The Next 100 Years, and focused his predictions on the coming ten years in The Next Decade. Now, in Flashpoints, Friedman zooms in on the region that has, for 500 years, been the cultural hotbed of the world - Europe - and examines the most basic and fascinating building block of the region: culture.

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.

Esta crónica, publicada en 1568 se presenta como un testimonio de primera mano que desafía las versiones oficiales y más idealizadas de otros cronistas contemporáneos, como Hernán Cortés en sus Cartas de Relación y Francisco López de Gómara en su "Historia de la conquista de México". Bernal Díaz del Castillo se propone corregir lo que él considera omisiones o distorsiones de los hechos, ofreciendo una narrativa más terrenal y menos heroica de los eventos.

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades.

When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality of what she went on to achieve - despite those obstacles, and despite a sectarian attack that forced her family to flee their home - is even more improbable. In this luminous memoir, Mary McAleese traces that astonishing arc: from the tight streets of north Belfast, to a professorship in Dublin while still in her twenties, behind-the-scenes work on the peace process, and two triumphant terms as President of Ireland.

In this day and age, whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to play in it. In Soft, Ferdinand Mount tells the millennium-long history of emotion through vivid snapshots, masterly storytelling and bizarre historical anecdotes. Revealing all the weird and wonderful ways people in the past expressed their grief and joy, Mount explores the shifting importance societies have placed on empathy for the misfortunes of others.

Gales tiene una larga e ilustre historia, repleta de hazañas heroicas, personajes legendarios y momentos cruciales. En este conciso libro de historia, descubrirá la fascinante historia de Gales, desde sus antiguos orígenes celtas hasta la nación moderna. Desde el reinado del Rey Arturo y las batallas de los príncipes galeses hasta la revolución industrial y el auge del nacionalismo galés, este libro ofrece una visión general completa de los momentos clave y las figuras que han moldeado Gales a lo largo de los siglos.

Philip II ruled France with an iron fist for over 40 years, expanding its borders and increasing its power. For his entire reign his counterpart on the English throne was a member of the Plantagenet dynasty, and Philip took on them all: Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, John and Henry III. And yet we know so little about medieval England’s greatest enemy.

The final months of 1914 were the bloodiest interval in a famously bloody war, a killing season. They ended with the First Battle of Ypres, a struggle in West Flanders, Belgium, the importance of which has been too long over-looked – until now. Robert Cowley’s account of this crucial period describes how German armies in France were poised to sweep north to capture the Channel ports and knock England out of the war – and were only held back by a brilliant improvisation from a cobbled-together handful of desperate British, French and Belgium troops.

The Book of Kells is a mystery. It is distinct from all copies of the gospels from the early Middle Ages, not only in the quality and amount of its decoration but also in the peculiarities of the ordering of its contents, the oddness of its apparatus, the appearance of the script, the interplay of text and ornament, and the erratic forms of its Latin.

In April 2018 David Price, dedicated aviation museum volunteer and author of THE CREW and MOSQUITO MEN, decided to build a Spitfire replica in his back garden. In How to Build a Spitfire he juxtaposes the story of the ups and down of his own ambitious project to recreate an icon of British aviation with a narrative of the development of the Spitfire itself, focusing in particular on the construction and production of the aircraft and its various component parts (including the Merlin engine), amplified by the testimonies of some of those who worked in the Supermarine factory in Southampton.

Hatte die DDR einen eigenen Klang? Wie politisch oder privat ist Kunst und Kultur? Welche Bilder zeichnet die Lyrik in einem sozialistischen System und welche Töne schlägt die Musik an? Mit Fragen wie diesen befassen sich die Pianistin Ragna Schirmer, der Schlagzeuger Matthias Daneck und der Schauspieler, Regisseur und Autor Axel Ranisch. Sie beleuchten in Wort und Ton die vier Jahrzehnte der DDR-Historie. Gedichte sowie Musikstücke im Spannungsfeld zwischen Alltag und Utopie, Avantgarde und Anpassung.

Los caballeros templarios se han consolidado como la organización militar más popular de la época medieval. Todo el mundo ha oído hablar de la orden, y todo el mundo está familiarizado con la imagen de un caballero cruzado medieval con una cruz roja en su uniforme blanco. Pero, ¿quiénes eran exactamente los templarios? ¿Cuál era su objetivo? ¿Y son ciertos los rumores sobre su naturaleza secreta?

The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the “shot heard ‘round the world” to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington & Concord were borne out of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses.

Det var tidigt sjuttiotal. En politisk tid. Unga entusiastiska journalister ägnade sig åt att gräva i statens hemligheter och avslöjade en spionorganisation som inte ens riksdagen kände till. Det ledde till en våldsam konfrontation. Staten slog tillbaka med polisrazzior och fängelsestraff. Många minns skriverierna runt IB-affären. Men vad var det egentligen som hände? Hade maktens män skäl att slå till så oerhört hårt? Var rikets säkerhet verkligen i fara? Eller handlade det om rent förtryck av det fria ordet? Som så ofta är fallet överträffar sanningen dikten.

1920-talet beskrevs massmedierna som demokratins dödgrävare. Där spreds hat, lögner och propaganda snabbare än någonsin tidigare i historien. I detta hav av information skulle folk inte klara av att skilja sant från falskt, utan följa den som väckte starkast känslor. På 2020-talet beskrivs de sociala medierna likadant.

Häxprocessernas tid är en oerhört omskriven epok och fortsätter att fascinera. Men allt är inte som vi förletts att tro. Vår bild av händelserna har blivit mer myt och politisk saga än verklighet. Och häxjakten är förvisso den märkligaste följden av Karl IX:s bibliska lag, men antalet dödsoffer överskuggades vida av de som fick sätta livet till för andra sedlighetsbrott, såsom tidelag och barnamord.