The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book... Læs mere
In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna.
Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War... Læs mere
Presents the story of the evolution of modern Bahrain through the life and times of Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, ruler of the country, from 1942 through the crucial... Læs mere