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This book tells the story of the early history of surgery - when surgeons were equipped with just knives, fire and boiling oil. The two events ...
Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity yet, if you look in the Bible, you ll find only ...
Philip Zeigler's overview of this crucial event synthesizes the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians in one volume. This illustrated ...
Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we ...
Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the historical trajectory ...
Richard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace before the outbreak of World War Two. 24 August ...
Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two ...
Born into lowly circumstances in London's East End in 1823 William Wilkinson Wardell became one of Australia's greatest architects whose crowning works are ...
This is a comprehensive study of key air superiority and ground attack aircraft developed since World War II, in chronological order. Each aircraft has a ...
The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considered histories ...
With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal ...
On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes ...
