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Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory ...
This is a country-by-country guide to 130 landing ships and landing craft, with over 210 wartime and modern photographs. It features a complete guide to ...
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe ...
This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst ...
A controversial reassessment of the origins of the Great War
Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think ...
The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument
This extraordinary book draws on a lifetime ...
An updated edition of Geoffrey Blainey's bestselling account of human history, A Very Short History of the World, featuring new material on China and ...
The idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today the Roman empire offers a powerful image for thinking about imperialism. Traces of ...
On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmedAmerican soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS tank ...
A provocative, surprising and richly enjoyable exploration of the British Empire, from a bestselling Wolfson Prize-winning author
The enormous influence of the British Empire cannot ...
Nearly a thousand years ago the Archbishop of Armagh, later canonised as St Malachy, made a series of prophecies that were hidden in the Vatican ...
Peter Caddick-Adams, one of the world's authorities on battle field history and author of the applauded joint biography of Montgomery and Rommel ('... a brilliant ...
The definitive account for our times of a pivotal moment in English history
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful ...
Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of ...
The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe ...
