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'Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the warriors from the north - the Vikings...' • Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth, no one is safe from the Northmen's fury • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood

Совершите путешествие в исчезнувший мир с серией "Приключения во времени" - истории настолько захватывающие, что вы не поверите, что все они правдивы • Рожденная в самой богатой династии в мире, юная Клеопатра всегда мечтала о славе и империи. И когда она побеждает своих брата и сестру, чтобы стать царицей Египта, она уверена, что боги избрали именно ее. Но затем военный флот Юлия Цезаря входит в ее гавань - и внезапно судьба ее страны висит на волоске • Присоединяйтесь к Доминику Сэндбруку, в книге "Клеопатра, царица Нила" и мы последуем за самой знаменитой королевой от Александрии до Рима, через любовные романы и эпические битвы, к укусу змеи, который изменит ход истории • Книга на английском языке • Take a journey to a vanished world with the Adventures in Time series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • Born into the richest dynasty in the world, young Cleopatra has always dreamed of glory and empire

В этой замечательной составной биографии Элисон Вейр живо оживляет шестерых жен Генри, раскрывая каждую как самостоятельную и неотразимую личность. Опираясь на богатый документальный материал периода Тюдоров, "Шесть жен Генриха VIII" показывает нам двор, где личные потребности часто влияли на общественные мероприятия и где жизнь, полная пышных ритуализированных удовольствий, была пронизана амбициями, изменой и насилием • Книга на английском языке • One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour • In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and violence

Take a journey to a vanished world with the Adventures in Time series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • 'The whistles blew, the cheers went up, and thousands of men were scrambling up into the rolling fields of No Man's Land . . .' • Travel back in time to The First World War, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us from the soaring heights of an aeroplane cockpit to the desperate depths of the enemy trenches. We are plunged first hand into a conflict like no other as, amid the greatest clash of empires ever known, the future of the world hangs in the balance • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • Prepare to enter the most dramatic conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a spine-tingling, heart-stopping adventure. We witness the Second World War first-hand through the eyes of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, from the women who worked all night in factories to the chess players who cracked unbreakable codes. Because in total war, no life is left untouched • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened

The Italian colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer • Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the colour of mourning? What connects Queen Victoria's mauve gown and Michelle Obama's yellow dress? • In Chromorama, acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of colour to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture - from the novels of Gustave Flaubert to The Simpsons, from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit, from Mondrian to Hitchcock's thrillers - Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with colour, and how first the industrial revolution, and then the dawn of the internet age, changed it forever

"Времена года под солнцем. Битва за Британию, 1974-1979" - это великолепный рассказ Доминика Сэндбрука о конце 1970-х годов в Великобритании • Конец 1970-х годов был для Британии временем раздоров и хорошей жизни. Они видели инфляцию, бунты, пик могущества профсоюзов, а также рождение домашних компьютеров, расцвет готовой еды и триумф дочери бакалейщика из Грэнтема, которая изменит все. Доминик Сэндбрук воссоздает этот экстраординарный период во всем его хаосе и противоречиях, раскрывая его как поворотный момент в нашей недавней истории, когда во всем, от семей и школ до панков и "Доктора Кто", решалось будущее нации • Книга на английском языке • Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain • The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life

The pre-eminent study of the six wives of Henry VIII by a master historian • Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived • CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir • ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever • JANE SEYMOUR: the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's radical and vampish style • ANNE OF CLEVES: 'the mare of Flanders' whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical 'beauty contest' • CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king... CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • 'His mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny...' • Alexander has one, wild dream: to rule the world. And with his childhood friends and his beloved horse Bucephalas, he sets out from his home in Ancient Greece to do just that. With historian Dominic Sandbrook as our guide, join Alexander on his incredible journey through the deserts of Egypt and over the snow-capped mountains of Persia all the way to India, defeating all who stand in his way. For anything is possible with the help of the gods • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children

Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour – secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Gareth Russell’s history unfurls as if in real time to explain how the queen’s career ended with one of the great scandals of Henry’s reign. This is a grand tale of the Henrician court in its twilight, a glittering but pernicious sunset during which the king’s unstable behaviour and his courtiers’ labyrinthine deceptions proved fatal to many, not just to Catherine Howard

«Пускай отныне будет вам известно, • Что может женщина веселой быть и честной» • Фальстаф замышляет соблазнить двух замужних женщин и завладеть деньгами их мужей; те же вскоре раскрывают его планы и решают отомстить мужчине. «Виндзорские насмешницы» – это комедия Уильяма Шекспира, в которой возвращается один из самых известных персонажей исторических хроник «Генрих IV» и «Генрих V» • Издание Penguin Classics содержит введение в биографию Шекспира и театр елизаветинской эпохи, вступление к пьесе, хронологию творчества писателя, рекомендации для дальнейшего чтения, эссе об адаптациях в кино и театре и комментарии к пьесе • По мотивам произведения были сняты десятки фильмов • Книга на английском языке • William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V - The Merry Wives of Windsor is edited by G

Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his new book Derek Wilson explores the myths behind the image of the Tudor Lion. He was the monarch that delivered the Reformation to England yet Luther called him 'A fool, a liar and a damnable rotten worm'. As a young man he gained a reputation as an intellectual and fair prince yet he ruled the nation like a tyrant. He treated his subjects as cruelly as he treated his wives. Based on a wealth of new material and a life time's knowledge of the subject Derek Wilson exposes a new portrait of a much misunderstood King