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The culmination of the life's work of Dr. Herbert Basedow who travelled the most remote parts of Australia from 1903 to 1928. 472 pages ...
'The very grubby coalface of foreign policy ... I found the entire book most horribly addictive' Independent
'One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful ...
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians ...
The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody day ...
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial ...
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ...
Savage Life in Central Australia gives a first-hand account of life amongst the Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru) and Dieri people living their traditional nomadic lives in the ...
'Awe-inspiring ... stunning ... no review can really do this book justice- it is a superlative work' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
'The Penguin History of Europe series ...
This volume, the second in Mike Donaldson's series of Kimberley rock art books, covers the northern coast from the King George River to Kalumburu ...
Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War ...
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize
'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one ...
In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West ...
The first truly commercial one-volume history of the Cold War
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in ...
