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War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost ...
Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but only published now for the first time ...
In 1972, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus ...
Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography
The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the ...
Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight ...
Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various ...
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president-no era of American politics-has been so intensively and sharply examined at ...
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.
Here, Johnson ...
How, when, and why did the Cold War begin? Why did it last so long? What impact did it have on the United States, the ...
THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy's enduring classic ...
The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability ...
'Salt is the fascinating, indispensable history of an indispensable ingredient. It's a must-have book for any serious cook or foodie' Anthony Bourdain
Homer called ...
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might ...
The French call them 'the Dark Years'...This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive ...
A collection of the former Prime Minister's speeches and articles, `Statecraft' brought Margaret Thatcher's unrivalled political experience to bear on the challenges of ...
