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Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried in Egypt, but their tombs have never been found despite years ...
How did a conservative Republican end up creating the most liberal Supreme Court in modern history? This new biography of Earl Warren Sr., based on ...
'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft ...
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness ...
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind ...
Best Books of 2019-Scholarly Kitchen
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Hashtags can silence ...
Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the ...
Who are the English? Their language and culture have had an impact on the modern world out of all proportion to the size of their ...
Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. Yet their memory of ...
A "highly readable" (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by ...
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies ...
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has ...
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories - from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs ...
The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detentionThe Killing Season explores one of ...
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrative
The Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which ...
