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After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman's 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British ...
A powerful cycle of stories from many mythologies, from Greek to Norse, Japanese to Slavic. Adds to the gorgeous editions of the Epic Tales and ...
Step into the captivating world of the Middle Ages with Saints and Sinners, a groundbreaking exploration of history like no other. In this remarkable narrative ...
'Like Crecy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.'- Bernard Cornwell, bestselling author of The ...
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
"Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville."
-Timothy Snyder, #1 New ...
An eighteen-year-old reads Voltaire and Volney and loses his religion. It's 1818 in Ottoman Damietta and Muslims and Christians are questioning everything. Mikha'il ...
In What Is Mine, sociologist Jose Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family ...
An ambitious alternative history of the modern Middle East
What Really Went Wrong offers a fresh and incisive assessment of American foreign policy's impact ...
Packed with legends, sea lore and exciting true-life tales, this is a highly giftable treasure trove of Britain's top 100 lighthouses, each one illustrated ...
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen ...
'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES
14 CE: The first Roman ...
"An important new book offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it ...
The Nazis' dream was to populate their future Greater-German Reich exclusively with 'racial valuable' people and Himmler became the main executor of this gruesome and ...
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential
"Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and ...
We have long been divided over how exceptional the United States is, and that debate has often revolved around the frontier. In Heart of American ...
