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The Shah Nameh (The Book of Kings), The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan (The Flower Garden) are amongst the greatest works of Persia, containing ...
In ancient times, the series of waterways now known as the Turkish Straits, comprising the Dardanelles (or Hellespont), Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus, formed ...
A "moving and lucidly written memoir" (The Wall Street Journal) of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants ...
George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the ...
The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a 30-year-old man was taken from ...
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That ...
Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent ?barbarians? who destroyed ?civilization,? at least in the conventional story of Rome ...
The Greek hoplite and the phalanx formation in which he fought have been the subject of considerable academic debate over the past century. Dr Richard ...
"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent
Today's ...
We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against foreign enemies. Yet at ...
A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself ...
The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess - but was this reputation ...
'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge ...
The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain
In Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though we often choose not to see it ...
The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only existed in books ...
