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The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody day ...
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial ...
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer, considered one of the most important naval strategists of the nineteenth century. In 1885 he was ...
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ...
The true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. Now in paperback.
ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED NAVAL HISTORY TITLES OF ...
Savage Life in Central Australia gives a first-hand account of life amongst the Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru) and Dieri people living their traditional nomadic lives in the ...
'Awe-inspiring ... stunning ... no review can really do this book justice- it is a superlative work' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
'The Penguin History of Europe series ...
The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people ...
'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon ...
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message ...
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize
'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one ...
In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West ...
The first truly commercial one-volume history of the Cold War
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in ...
A comprehensive and enthralling introduction to the Classical World, ideal for those whose interest in the subject has been speaked by the recent BBC series ...
