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A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan
In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one ...
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WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici ...
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Did Jesus really visit the Holy Isle of Avalon as a young man? And did Joseph of Arimathea really found the first church here too ...
Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has had unanimous ...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito comes this fascinating story of horses and how they have shaped human history.
The Horse ...
The remarkable story of Australia's First Nations Languages, from precolonial times to the present
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays ...
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history
There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...
A searing indictment of the media's failures in reporting Indigenous affairs - and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way ...
One of Britain's most popular public philosophers presents unexpected, hopeful lessons from human history that could help us to overcome the global challenges facing ...
A powerful account of German-speaking Europe through five centuries of fighting
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of ...
Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond-compiled by the New York Times ...
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY
In this final work from renowned ...
'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES
'A brilliant, bloody account of ...