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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"A startling work -- awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." - Business Week
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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern ...
Churchill's Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear ...
How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer.
Revolutions, droughts ...
A Pelican introduction to the century of Russia's revolutionary experience
What caused the Russian Revolution?
Did it succeed or fail?
Why are we still ...
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today ...
Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most ...
A provocative, surprising and richly enjoyable exploration of the British Empire, from a bestselling Wolfson Prize-winning author
The enormous influence of the British Empire cannot ...
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe ...
This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst ...
The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument
This extraordinary book draws on a lifetime ...
The definitive account for our times of a pivotal moment in English history
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful ...
An updated edition of Geoffrey Blainey's bestselling account of human history, A Very Short History of the World, featuring new material on China and ...
Compelling new translation of the Annals, by Cynthia Damon
Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus ...
A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012
Almost six hundred years ...