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The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals
From 1915 to ...
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture
In 402 AD, after ...
'Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness.' - Elie Wiesel
When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror ...
The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain
Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously ...
Following his bestselling short histories of England and Europe comes the final in the trilogy- LONDON
LONDON- a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by ...
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants
This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty ...
A festive, delightfully-illustrated compendium that features holiday traditions from around the world. From Jolabokafloo (Christmas Book Flood) in Iceland to Festa dei sette pesci (Feast ...
'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times
A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and ...
Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not ...
Cecil Rhodes and Shaquille O'Neal; Mozart and Peter Sellers; Duke Ellington and the Duke of Wellington; Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. These Masons, and ...
In 1831, an unknown, horrifying, and deadly disease from Asia swept across continental Europe and North America, killing millions and throwing the medical profession into ...
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories ...
At the heart of this history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty are the lives of six men - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius and Nero ...
Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at ...
"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national ...
