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The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody day ...
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial ...
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ...
'Awe-inspiring ... stunning ... no review can really do this book justice- it is a superlative work' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
'The Penguin History of Europe series ...
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against ...
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...
In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West ...
The first truly commercial one-volume history of the Cold War
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in ...
A comprehensive and enthralling introduction to the Classical World, ideal for those whose interest in the subject has been speaked by the recent BBC series ...
ASP's best-selling publication. An attractive educational tool which aims to represent all the language groups of Australia's Indigenous people.
In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians patrol officers from the ...
A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society.
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source ...
A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round-the-world explorer.
William Dampier, (1651-1715 ...
Readers of books on pivotal events in history and character-driven history, such as How the Scots Invented the Modern World; 1421- The Year China Discovered ...
Alexander the Great is the subject of two major Hollywood films in autumn 2004.
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of ...
