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This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government ...
'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular imagination. He himself contributed much towards the construction of his ...
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where ...
China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire ...
Famed for their fighting qualities, fanaticism and brutality, the Waffen-SS evolved from being Hitler's fiercely loyal personal bodyguard in the 1920s into an army ...
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and ...
The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state ...
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Situated in ...
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine ...
Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their ...
In 1916, a desperate Ernest Shackleton sailed across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat, then trekked across unmapped ice and snow ...
The book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes
More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in ...
Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the ...
Founded in 1948, the Israeli Air Force has seen involvement in some of the most dramatic and important conflicts of post-War history. In action during ...
Published in Defeating Hitler for the very first time, the top secret report Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933 - 1945 was prepared by ...
