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In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had ...
The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series- short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback
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Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain's most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary ...
The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world ...
At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the ...
When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest and most powerful empire in ...
More than any other, Christianity is the world's first truly global faith. Lying at the heart of Western civilisation, Christianity has spread everywhere, and ...
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke ...
Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin ...
VICEROYS is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of ...
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and ...
"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and ...
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