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There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.
From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught ...
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average ...
The notion of a utopian society was developed by the Bible and represented a momentous milestone in the history of civilization. This idea would evolve ...
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
"A detailed and fascinating account of how the Chinese leadership's strategy ...
New Zealand 1773. A week before Christmas. A rowboat carrying ten sailors disappears. Next day butchered bodies are found on a beach. All have been ...
The Sturm Abteilung der NSDAP (SA, assault battalion of the Nazi party) created in August 1920 were squads of strong arms intended to protect the ...
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday ...
In this journal Boatswain's Mate James Morrison recounts the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty's 1787 voyage and the ensuing mutiny, providing an invaluable ...
Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the ...
"Investigative reporting at its best. Mark Shaw's original work into the questionable deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen is now focused on the ...
There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was the second wife of Henry VIII, mother of ...
In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the 'Romans' and the ...
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites travelled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over ...
If this doesn't move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' -John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944). Told by ...
Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first ...
