WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture & personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble & inspiring, some despicable & unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse & frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great & Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent & unknown people in extraordinary circumstances
- from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now
- & illuminate tomorrow.

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Published to coincide with World Book Day, & accompanied by stunning photographs & etchings, this anthology is a celebration ...

Wrockwardine Wood, Wombridge & St George`s in 1901 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the area from The Whitehorse Inn Public House & Teagues Bridge to Market Street & St George`s Church in the south, including the railway line & station, Newyard Engineering Works, Gas Works, St Mary & St Leonard`s Church, Wombridge Iron Works (disused) & Shropshire Iron Works. There are also numerous old coal shafts & quarries. On the reverse is an extract from a street directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Wroclaw & its immediate environs at 1:20, 000 from Michal Kasprowski providing an excellent illustration how to present history & development of a city by overprinting an old (here a per-1945) map with current information. The base is a pre-1945 German map at 1:20, 000 of Breslau, as the city was then called, with showing the street network, railways, parks & woodlands, etc, & even the flight paths from the city’s airport, with street, district & other place names as they were at the time of publication. Added to it is finely presented overprint showing streets built in the suburbs in the post-war years with their current names. All suburb names are given in the pre-1945 & current versions plus, where appropriate, their old pre-1900 names. The map retains its old, simple & self-explanatory German legend. On the reverse are three index lists: German pre-1945 names with their current Polish equivalents, current Polish names with their old German versions, plus names of streets added since 1945. ...

Wroclaw (Wroclaw) is a slim guidebook to the Polish city, generously illustrated with over 900 pictures. The aim when compiling the guide was for it to be an interesting & practical aid in moving about Wroclaw both in space & time. The guide contains many descriptions of sites accompanied by both contemporary & historic images in a generous attempt to present the city ...

Wroclaw Top 20 Map from Daunpol, laminated & waterproof, & presenting an indexed street plan of the city with an enlargement of its historic centre, both annotated with 20 top sights, plus lists of 20 best hotels, clubs, restaurants & shops. The plan shows Wroclaw including its more interesting outer districts of Sepolno & Krzyki, at 1:18, 000, with a detailed enlargement covering the city ...

Wroclaw on a street plan showing both current & old, pre-WWII German street & district names & no longer existing streets, with an enlargement for the town centre. Coverage extends from Muchobór & Krzyki to Sepolno & Psie Pole. Tram routes are shown with stops & line numbers. Main public buildings are identified & symbols mark locations of post offices, police stations, campsites, etc. An enlargement shows the town centre in greater detail. Both plans show current & old pre-WWII German names of streets, districts, etc., & indicate no longer existing streets. Map legend

Includes:: English. On the reverse the index has two lists: current & old names, cross-referenced. Also included are extensive notes on the city’s main sites, in German only.

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Wroclaw is one of the oldest cities in Poland with a long & turbulent history that is manifest on every corner. Throughout the ages, the city has been passed from hand to hand in many different circumstances. The city has belonged to the Poles, the Czechs, the Hungarians & the Germans. Although almost seventy percent of its urban fabric was destroyed in the Second World War, Wroclaw managed to rise from the ruins & now boasts many an architectural monument. The city currently features nearly eight thousand tenements
- one of the largest complexes of this type found in Poland &, furthermore, in Europe. The oldest tenements originated in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance, & are surrounded by Baroque, Classicist, Art Nouveau & modernist architecture. This publication comprises a compelling selection of more than 150 buildings
- from avant-garde residential blocks dating from the sixties & seventies via the Centennial Hall
- recognised by the American Getty Foundation as one of the ten most important examples of twentieth century modernism
- to modern buildings & the Ozeaneum in the Zoo.



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In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey & his own re-evaluation of Japan through his attempt to ...

In 2002, twice Booker-winning author Peter Carey travelled to Japan, accompanied by his twelve-year old son Charley, on a special kind of pilgrimage. In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley`s passion for Japanese Manga & anime, & explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although graphically violent & disturbing, the two mediums are both inherently concerned with Japan`s rich history & heritage, & hold a huge popular appeal that crosses the generations. Led by their adolescent guide Takashi, an uncanny mix of generosity & derision, father & son look for the hidden puzzles & meanings, searching, often with comic results, for a greater understanding of these art forms, & for what they come to refer to as their own `real Japan`. From Manhattan to Tokyo, Commodore Perry to Godzilla, kabuki theatre to the post-war robot craze, Wrong about Japan is a fascinatingly personal, witty & moving exploration of two very different cultures. ...