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For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months ...
The twenty intriguing journeys and routes featured in this book range from distances of a few miles to great adventures across land, sea, air and ...
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future.
Aarathi Prasad's Silk is ...
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
"Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of ...
The events in this book have all, in a significant way, shaped our history, attitudes and culture. Not many nations can remember their own birthday ...
'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and ...
Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ...
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up ...
Australian history of aviation has borne witness to some of the world's most audacious daredevils and dreamers.
Their extraordinary exploits would read more like ...
In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence ...
The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of this compelling minute-by-minute account of 6 August 1945 - the day the ...
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2024
A Sunday Times, BBC History Magazine, and Evening Standard Book of the ...
Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the ...
'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR
'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages ...
National Bestseller
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction