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Charles Townshend's The Republic gets to the truth, painting a far more nuanced and sceptical picture than previous accounts have done - but never losing ...
King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the ...
Here is a one-volume history of the Christian people from Pentecost to the present day, with principal focus on the Catholic Church. Having passed AD ...
The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy ...
A fresh look at the decades when British ingenuity and technological innovation changed the course of human history and ushered in the modern world.
In ...
Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world ...
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of ...
The discovery earlier this year in Winchester of human remains, almost certainly of Alfred the Great or his eldest son, has sparked renewed interest in ...
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern ...
In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when ...
The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings ...
Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know ...
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry ...
Working simultaneously on two levels, 'Saladin' represents a different kind of biography - a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age ...
