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The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction ...
A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland
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His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the ...
A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us ...
The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping
In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia ...
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world ...
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.
By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica ...
Why is the world the way it is? What forces have forged our planet and how have they in turn governed our evolution, influenced the ...
An updated and expanded edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this iconic ship. The narrative spans her construction at Dumbarton in 1869; her famous ...
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the ...
As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180 ...
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in English or British history. Traditionally considered victims of a ruthless ...
There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because ...
