Paul Preston 
Coming of the Spanish Civil War [PDF ebook] 

State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today »s international affairs – and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan …

The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two cen …

Zhand Shakibi presents a new interpretation of the political and social dynamics of the last decade of the Shah »s rule that challenges the binary view of pro-West Shah and anti-West Ayatollah by dra …

During the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, there was an attempt at self-transformation into some form of civilian rule in 1973: the so-called  »Markezinis experiment », named after the politi …

Using interviews as primary sources this book shines a light on the infamous Portuguese massacre of Wiriyamu in colonial Mozambique in 1972. Twenty-four carefully curated testimonies are presented, c …

Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria examines Austrian Protestants who actively resisted the Habsburg Counterreformation in the early seventeenth century. While a determined few decide …

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally expected almost everyone to work. Artistic and liter …

The century after the conquests of Timur witnessed the division of eastern and western Iran between his Turko-Mongol successors, and a flowering of Persian culture in the great cities of Herat, Samar …

Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries …

Shortlisted for the 2021 Society for Army Historical Research »s Templer Medal Operation Crusader, launched in November 1941, was the third and final British attempt to relieve the siege of Tobruk an …