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Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on ...
Aboriginal Elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that constitutes the oldest collective memory of humankind. Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation ...
'An erudite and fascinating work' Jan Morris, New York Times
'An artful combination of history, archaeology and the imagination' Mary Beard, New York Review of ...
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In ...
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of ...
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic ...
An epic narrative history that compares and contrasts the fortunes of all the countries that make up South Asia.
If British India had not been ...
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human ...
In 1549 the first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan, and over 60 years, they converted over 300,000 Japanese to their belief. In 1614, a ...
This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome ...
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against ...
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and ...
The suicides of Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler, and later Goering at the end of World War II were only the most prominent in a suicide ...
