العصر الحديث إلى عام 1918

"This volume is an attempt to rescue from undeserved oblivion a cluster of soldierly autobiographies; and to give to the general reader some pictures of famous battles, not as described by the h …

The Holy Alliance by W.P. Cresson is a fascinating exploration of one of the most significant but often overlooked diplomatic coalitions of the 19th century. Published by Perennial Press, this meticu …

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris is a memoir published in 1848 of the experiences of an enlisted soldier in the 95th Regiment of Foot in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. The eponymous …

Gathering clouds, dark and ominous, obscured the political horizon in the year 1769. The habitués of London coffee-houses discussed one of three things—“The Letters of Junius, ” the most remarkable s …

WHAT has hitherto been called ‘universal history’ or ‘world history’ (Weltgeschichte) has been nothing but a conglomeration. People believed they were writing world history if they articulated togeth …

This brilliant and evocative book is now widely regarded as the greatest single study of the age in any language. The late George Kitson Clark characterized it as ‘an historical essay of unique inter …

THE division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation from anothe …

THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the …

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris is a memoir published in 1848 of the experiences of an enlisted soldier in the 95th Regiment of Foot in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.The eponymous …

Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate tell …