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Upon his return from India, Alexander the Great travelled to the Persian royal city of Pasargadae to pay homage at the tomb of King Cyrus ...
An acclaimed history of the Vikings and The Times and Sunday Times History Book of the Year
The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin ...
"I was 11 years old. I witnessed the mindless cruelty of human beings. The only peace was when I was surrounded by the dead." Luise ...
Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII's most faithful servant, the only man the king ever openly regretted executing. But Thomas Cromwell came to royal ...
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed ...
How the collapse of empires helps explain the efforts of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey to challenge the international order
"This is a must read ...
In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and ...
This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately ...
A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history-named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times ...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
"A deeply informed account of how ...
The war against Japan officially ended on September 2, 1945, but in Asia the fighting never really stopped. Civil war, communal violence, and insurgency engulfed ...
A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation
"Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists ...
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East
Called by Winston Churchill in 1921 ...
A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book.
Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with ...
New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first-rate scholarship, and assessed which ...
