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Bloomsbury presents Domesday, written and read by Max Adams. The Domesday Book describes the furniture of a culture and its economy – the legacy of Anglo-Saxon England. When King William I sent his agents to survey every shire in England, he asked them to list his holdings and calculate what...

Bloomsbury presents About Britain by Tim Cole, read by Matt Addis. A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed ‘handbooks for the explorer’. Their aim was to encourage...

This second volume begins with the picture of the "glory" of this new dynastic-tribal alliance of European monarchs and their fired-up nationalist people, armed with massive industrial might enabling them to take over massive portions of the rest of the world (Asia and Africa). But this energy turns Europeans on each other when finally there are no more overseas lands to capture, resulting in the disastrous "Great War" (1914-1918).

A vivid narrative history across a 1,000-mile journey on foot, Searching for the Norman Conquest opens a window onto the English cultural landscape of the eleventh century. What was the eleventh-century Domesday Book? It is now is one of the most significant historical documents from medieval...

Explore a geopolítica brutal e a história europeia de uma nação sobrevivendo ao choque de impérios no Adriático. Perfeito para transformar seu trajeto diário em uma experiência imersiva, este relato acompanha a evolução de aldeias medievais fragmentadas até a consolidação de um...

Sumérgete en mil años de historia medieval y vive la brutal transformación de Europa entre la peste, la guerra y la fe. Lejos del mito de una época oscura, este inmersivo viaje sonoro ilumina la verdadera realidad cotidiana de quienes forjaron nuestro mundo. Explora el colapso del Imperio...

Adéntrate en la historia militar europea y comprende cómo la arquitectura defensiva definió mil años de guerra medieval. Este absorbente viaje al pasado transforma tu trayecto diario en una épica inmersión donde la piedra y el ingenio humano chocan contra la brutalidad del combate. Siente...

Descubra a verdade histórica por trás da relíquia mais mística da humanidade e entenda como um mito moldou milênios. Perfeito para acompanhar seu trajeto diário, este mergulho imersivo no mundo medieval transforma sua rotina em uma jornada de puro fascínio investigativo. Acompanhe a...

Explora la turbulenta historia de una nación forjada en la frontera de Europa, resistiendo el choque de imperios. Este evocador recorrido histórico es el compañero perfecto para tus trayectos diarios o mientras planeas tu viaje al Adriático, transformando siglos de tensiones geopolíticas en...

Roma no colapsó en el siglo V; forjó un imperio medieval épico que sobrevivió mil años frente a crisis monumentales. Ideal para transformar tu viaje diario en una inmersión fascinante por la historia antigua, este relato te transporta a las vibrantes calles de Constantinopla. Sumérgete en...

Explora el mayor misterio de la historia y comprende cómo la leyenda del Grial forjó la cultura occidental. Ya sea que busques enriquecer tu mente durante el trayecto diario o disfrutar de un relato cautivador, este viaje sonoro separa los mitos literarios de los datos históricos comprobables...

In mid-1943, Snelling Robinson joined the crew of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Cotten as a newly commissioned ensign. The Cotten sailed to Pearl Harbor in time to join the Fifth Fleet. Under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance, the Fifth Fleet participated in the invasions of Tarawa and Iwo Jima and several naval battles in the Philippine Sea and the Leyte Gulf.

Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated. In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to...

What is it exactly that made for the greatness of Western Civilization? Why did it have its ups and downs, and where do things seem headed today? Ultimately, this two-volume series is as much a political-moral teaching as it is a presentation of the details of the West's wonderful (and sometimes tragic) historical record.