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We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical ...
"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way ...
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders ...
So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing ...
Though not as celebrated in literature (or propaganda) as the much feared Tiger, the Panther tank was arguably the more effective of Germany's two ...
The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 ...
A very enjoyable and astringent account of the events that made 1968 and its aftermath so important
The 'long 68' saw an extraordinary range of ...
A beautifully re-imaged account of Captain Cook's great voyages through the Pacific.
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world ...
The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world
Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century ...
The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of ...
Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as ...
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets.
He was also a Russian ...
A riveting oral history of the Cold War, drawing on interviews with those who lived through its key events, based on the BBC Radio 4 ...
