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This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of ...
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John ...
This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller. The ...
Compelling story of one of the most enduring myths of Nazi Germany: did the Nazis burn their own Reichstag? The Reichstag fire on 27 February ...
Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This ...
Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century ...
The dramatic story of Napoleon's overthrow - focusing not on the battle of Waterloo, whose importance has been overestimated, but on the two years before ...
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author ...
A definitive account of the iconic battle, uniquely structured over 24 hours of a single shocking day - a day that changed history
Agincourt was an ...
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled ...
The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire
Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar ...
The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the ...
