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This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which ...
On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d' tat ...
By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant ...
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern ...
For nearly two centuries Spain was the world's most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America and the ...
In Twelve Caesars, Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colourful biographies of each emperor, triumphantly evoking the luxury, licence, brutality and sophistication of ...
At the time of Jesus's birth, the world was in ferment. Across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia -societies rife with gods ...
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia ...
Hubert Wilkins was truly the last - and one of the greatest - explorers. And much more than that.
Born in South Australia, he spent much of ...
From Ervand Abrahamian, a leading historian on the Middle East, comes a lucid account of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran and how it ...
In this expansive one-volume account of the native peoples of North America, eminent historian William Brandon-who devoted much of his life to examining this subject-presents ...
In prehistoric caves, drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist ...
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost ...
In the course of a couple of years the township of Fitzroy Crossing in the remote Kimberley changed from a tiny frontier outpost, to a ...
