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John Ogilby's life is an astonishing adventure which is so fantastic as to be unbelievable. And yet very little is known about the man ...
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When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go "to the strongest". . . but would rival ...
'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe ...
Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having ...
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The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other ...
Following the runaway success of his Big Book of Numbers and World of Numbers, Adam Spencer is back with a wild ride through the ages ...
The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful ...
Through this magnificent collection of historical maps, travel writer Francisca Matteoli takes us on a geographical adventure, telling the stories of twenty-three places and voyages ...
The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of ...
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 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 ...
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