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A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS
'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr
'A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' - Jonathan Ross ...
The battleships of the world's navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge of 1577: they were wooden-built, sail-powered and ...
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the ...
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The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis.
In Band of Brothers ...
From one of our greatest historians, the epic story of how 20th-century Europe went to hell and back
In the summer of 1914 most of ...
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941 ...
During the West's great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1980s fought back almost ...
The major biography of Stalin - and the story of how a petty gangster from the Caucasus became one of the most powerful and feared figures ...
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern ...
The Celtic Myths is accessible for readers new to Celtic mythology, but satisfyingly detailed in its analysis of contexts, cultures and archaeology for those well ...
Churchill's Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear ...
'Compelling and wholly absorbing... among the most remarkable Australians of his time' Bob Carr
'Compelling and wholly absorbing... among the most remarkable Australians of his ...
How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer.
Revolutions, droughts ...
Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary
War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly ...
A Pelican introduction to the century of Russia's revolutionary experience
What caused the Russian Revolution?
Did it succeed or fail?
Why are we still ...