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The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle ...
The culmination of the life's work of Dr. Herbert Basedow who travelled the most remote parts of Australia from 1903 to 1928. 472 pages ...
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically ...
This book is a complete guide to the Regia Marina, the navy with which Italy fought the Second World War. Starting with the historical background ...
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.
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Almost six hundred years ...
This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1993; it was soon out of print and is now ...
5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia.
This epic confrontation between German and Soviet ...
'The very grubby coalface of foreign policy ... I found the entire book most horribly addictive' Independent
'One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful ...
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians ...
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a ...
Few warship types have had as much written about them as the Kriegsmarine's capital ships Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismarck and ...
The old Fremantle Women's Asylum has a colourful history and the stones tell their story but inside the spectral wraiths of the poor demented ...
The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital - Petra, a ...
