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Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance ...
A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empires
For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over ...
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we ...
Sumeria, c.3500 BC, witnessed the birth of the world's very first city by the rich and fertile banks of the Uruk. Over the ...
'If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship ...
Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and ...
Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? Ideas about our European ancestors are being transformed through archaeology, linguistics and the new genetic revolution ...
Named one of the best books of 2015 by NPR, Amazon, Seattle Times, and Shelf Awareness
A few bloody months in South Asia during the ...
A new approach to the history of the British Empire, seen through the cities which best epitomized it
Since the return of Hong Kong to ...
A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea.
An accomplishment of both ...
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as ...