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For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, but also a ...
Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation-and Henry VIII ...
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther
The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation ...
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the ...
Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World ...
A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From the author ofA. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals-and most misunderstood presidents
Winner of ...
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times-a period of unprecedented economic growth ...
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940: seemingly ...
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was ...
'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore
'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound
It is the century about which we know too much ...
Hard to believe but true:
The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet
The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers
Synagogue buildings were Roman ...
Mark Twain coined the term the "Gilded Age" for this period of growth and extravagance, experienced most dramatically in New York City from the 1870s ...
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals - from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet ...
