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Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both ...
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an ...
A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round-the-world explorer.
William Dampier, (1651-1715 ...
Readers of books on pivotal events in history and character-driven history, such as How the Scots Invented the Modern World; 1421- The Year China Discovered ...
Alexander the Great is the subject of two major Hollywood films in autumn 2004.
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of ...
One of the most important and best-selling history hardbacks of 2003 - over 15,000 copies sold.
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in ...
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's ...
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of ...
For over thirty years David S. Landes's The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now ...
Blood on the Wattle draws together, in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in ...
When Europeans first arrived in the Kimberley, a turbulent era began for the indigenous people. Finally granted cash wages in 1950, they still received nothing ...
'Extraordinary - a remarkable and satisfying book' Observer
Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.
The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross ...
