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Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became ...
Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?
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The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to ...
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Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics
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A major interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies
'Give me chastity, but ...
Based on twenty years of research, a book that rewrites the history of the Eisenhower presidency
"Irwin Gellman has emerged from years in the archives ...
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A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor
Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world ...
No journalist has chronicled the tragedies of the Israelis and the Palestinians so exhaustively, so authoritatively - or so controversially - as Robert Fisk, The Independent's ...
A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal ...
The previously untold story of the backroom politics that went on behind the handling of the abdication crisis of 1936.
The King Who Had to ...