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Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.
In June ...
Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount ...
'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'A splendid journey through eighty years of Chinese history ... Edward Wong is about ...
'Fascinating' GREG JENNER
'I couldn't put it down' JANINA RAMIREZ
'Fabulous' NATALIE HAYNES
'Alive with the spirit of adventure' RANULPH FIENNES
'If you love ...
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and ...
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as ...
A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity.
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in ...
Fifteen new contributors bring fresh perspectives to the fifth edition of The Human Past, the most authoritative introduction to world prehistory, revealing our shared human ...
At the beginning of the Second World War Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, but left neutral Sweden alone. Less than a year ...
"Well researched and riveting...The struggle of these four men against totalitarian injustice was noble, and this book memorializes it superbly."-The Wall Street Journal ...
40,000 years of Aboriginal history told through Aboriginal story-tellers. Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as ...
An examination of how the Jews real and imagined so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously ...
The first book to cover the full history of the RAF's air war against Hamburg, one of the most important target cities in Germany ...
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ONDAATJE PRIZE'A masterful portrait of one of the world's greatest cities... A must-read ...
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world.
In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors ...
