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This book shows the history of charts and nautical maps from the earliest known examples to the one used in the Twentieth Century, with a ...
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading ...
The Macedonian pike phalanx dominated the battlefields of Greece and the Near and Middle East for over two centuries. It was one of the most ...
"The Military History of Late Rome 518-565" provides a new, fresh analysis of the revival of Roman fortunes during the reigns of Justin I (518-527 ...
In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in ...
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation ...
Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New ...
This book redresses the relative lack of work published on the role of war in classical myth and legend. At the same time it debunks ...
Highlighting the true heroism of Antarctic explorers, the dangers they face and the equipment used to prevail. Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the ...
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.
By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica ...
Death was a constant presence in the lives of the rich and poor alike in seventeenth-century England, being much more visible in everyday existence than ...
An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066
"In putting flesh back on Edward's bones Licence ...
According to legend, Romulus was born to a Vestal Virgin and left for dead as an infant near the Tiber River. His life nearly ended ...
In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her ...
A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia
"A richly detailed study that goes a long ...
