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The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and ...
A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the ...
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it ...
In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United ...
'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, SHE MERCHANTS provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges ...
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history ...
'Wonderfully learned, wonderfully written, a microscopic examination of the acorn from which a truly mighty oak would spring. I learnt a huge amount.' - Tom Holland ...
Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the ...
November 12, 1941: war and revolution are in the air. At the Shanghai Race Club, the city's elite prepare to face off their best ...
A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East ...
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been ...
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and ...
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of ...
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
'Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap ...
When the fall of the Berlin Wall ended the Cold War, the American political establishment felt it had prevailed in a cosmic struggle of world-historical ...
