Regional & nationell historia

'The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England's history' In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is …

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another "explosive and compulsive" (Stephen Fry) thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir …

With the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Gone was her normal life and …

A military biography of Mithridates VI 'the Great' of Pontus, Rome's most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a …

For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that …

Whether you want to glimpse the spectacular Northern Lights, sample New Nordic cuisine in Stockholm's trendy restaurants or kayak across crystal-clear lakes, your DK Eyewitness …

In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the …

An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map …

I ESSÄBOKEN Mellan Sverige och Ryssland belyser diplomaten och Rysslandsexperten Rene Nyberg Finlands svåra läge mellan två stormakter under flera hundra år.År 1493 knöts Nordens …

From acclaimed historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of EuropeThe Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages …