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Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave ...
Divided into three parts, this book contains Baldwin Spender's diary n photographs and sketches compiled while conducting field work in the E River region ...
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'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard ...
This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Foundation ...
China is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. In the 21st century, it is clear that Chinas ...
A major new study of the kingship of James VI and I and Charles I in Scotland, England and Ireland, from 1567 to the outbreak ...
The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale - a campaign that was both a ...
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars ...
Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve ...
Simon Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canvases, a colossal narrative filled with adventure and disaster, victory and defeat. This ...
Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of one of ...
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good ...
Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was ...
