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Elegant and entertaining, this is the history of the most vibrant characters in classical civilisation. With their vast appetites, great beauty, and warlike tendencies, it ...
This is sunday Times bestseller. It is a Telegraph Book of the Year. It is a History Today Book of the Year. It is a ...
London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made ...
This is a major new and definitive work by the author of Iran: Empire of the Mind. Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Tehran in February ...
This is a captivating read spanning 5,000 years of the oceans history. "Conquest of the Ocean" tells the 5,000 year history of the ...
Original accounts ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to discovery of x-rays: Galen, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Harvey, Parkinson, others. "...a book useful to teacher and student ...
'Israel, six decades after its founding, remains a nation in thrall to an original martial impulse.' Born of idealism, under David Ben Gurion and his ...
Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict ...
A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires are locked ...
Today we are used to reaching for a painkiller when we get a headache, we take anaesthetics and antibiotics for granted, and we would not ...
Edward Teach - 'Blackbeard'-is one of the legends of the so-called 'golden age of piracy'. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody ...
