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Winner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in History
A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history ...
From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend On a cold December day in 1840 ...
As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost ...
Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII and his canonization are so heated they are known as the "Pius wars." Soldier of Christ moves ...
An unprecedented visual reference of the fighting men of the period from 8th century BC to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, with over 670 ...
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a riveting account of the great expeditions of Antarctica's Heroic Age that restores their status as grand scientific enterprises ...
The end of WW2 and the early Cold War years saw the need for a more powerful tank than the Sherman and Pershing tanks. The ...
In June 1712 the Dutch vessel Zuytdorp was wrecked on the cliffs north of Kalbarri in Western Australia. There were survivors. At the heart of ...
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Empires fell, others were crippled and new contenders ...
This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1986; it was soon out of print and is now ...
Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful ...
One hundred years have passed since Robert Falcon Scott's beleagured expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole, only to find that they had been ...
In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city ...
The twentieth century has been interpreted as a short century marked by extremes. According to this view, the century lasted only from 1914 to 1989 ...
This book provides an original perspective on the West's most enduring social and cultural institution. The author covers all the vital themes contributing to ...
