In the summer of 1812, Napoleon marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris. This book describes how the Russians went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe.

Leads us through the history of the Venice city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and a trading empire, the wars against Napoleon and the tourist invasions of today.

It was once called 'the humour of despair'! Thousands of men worked at the Liverpool Dock to the 'Herculaneum'. Dockers endured many long, poorly paid and soul-destroying hours, in what were often dreadful working conditions, but their hunmour helped then through.

The exhilarating history of how plants got their names, previously published as The Naming of Names, from the author of the worldwide bestseller The Tulip

Examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon.

The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down.

Examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.

A miscellany from one of the nation's favourite Englishmen of everything an Englishman should know. Like Schott's Miscellany and The Little Book of Patriotism, here is everything to celebrate our Englishness.

Analyzes one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America.

A study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.

Examines how it was possible for a group of ideological obsessive to remould a society famous for its sophistication and complexity into a one-party state directed at war and race hate. Drawing on research and analysis, this book presents a picture of a dictatorship consumed by visceral hatreds and ambitions, and driven by war.

37 Squadron RAF 1939 - 1945. An account of a Bomber Squadron at war acknowledging their role in the Wilhelmshaven debacle, Norwegian Campaign, fall of France, relief of Habbaniya, El Alamein, Sicily, Italy and the oil campaign in the Balkans.

A story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for centuries, until the Crusader castles were finally expunged.

The story of immigration to Britain from the Romans to asylum seekers. A moving and inspiring history which chronicles the remarkable stories of immigration that founded and defined a nation.

An essay about how we study and understand history, this book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history. It explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. It also introduces the concepts of causation, interpretation, and periodization, through examples of how historians work.

A book from Cengage Learning on Contemporary World History, International Edition .

How to Pass is the Number 1 revision series for Scottish qualifications across the three examination levels of Standard Grade, Intermediate and Higher! Second editions of the books present all of the material in full colour for the first time.