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In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except ...
This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist?
Drawing on literature and art, theology ...
In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory's Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land of ...
Legio IX Hispana had a long and active history, later founding York from where it guarded the northern frontiers in Britain. But the last evidence ...
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback
The English first came into existence as an idea, before ...
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work
What makes a ...
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO - pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior - have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by ...
'The definitive account of the Vulcan raids... taught me something new on every page'
A newly researched ...
This is both a field guide for travellers and a reference book for the home library. It covers more than 590 wildflowers from all parts ...
An intimate and wildly entertaining memoir of a life lived through food, from comedian, Off Menu podcast host and food obsessive, Ed Gamble.
'Full of ...
The first and only estate-authorised biography of the legendary rapper and an essential reevaluation of his legacy, fully illustrated with momentos, clothing, handwritten poetry, lyrics ...
In November 1923 the Royal Navy dispatched what was named the Special Service Squadron on a ten-month tour around the British Empire. Led by the ...
'A splendid, exciting book' Daily Mirror
'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting ...
A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial ...
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes-some millions of years old-and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes ...
