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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 ...
A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East ...
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been ...
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
'Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap ...
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of ...
When the fall of the Berlin Wall ended the Cold War, the American political establishment felt it had prevailed in a cosmic struggle of world-historical ...
A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka ...
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as ...
WINNER of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in ...
The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.
During the bloody and uncertain days of the Wars ...
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE ...
A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King ...