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Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against ...
Readers of books on pivotal events in history and character-driven history, such as How the Scots Invented the Modern World; 1421- The Year China Discovered ...
'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich' IAN KERSHAW AUTHOR OF HITLER THEY STARTED ...
'History, reportage, travel writing, wisdom and recipes - entertaining and enlightening' Sunday Times
The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language ...
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody ...
A fascinating historical account of Greece at a point of crisis
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 ...
'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens
A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 ...
Germany, 1870-1945: Politics, State Formation, and War deals with the three attempts to build a German nation-state between 1871 and 1945, and the reasons for ...
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places ...
Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great ...
The shocking and compelling story about the original inhabitants of America and the first book to focus on their plight.
The American West, 1860-1890- years ...
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad
In The Persian Expedition ...
The definitive biography of one of the darkest times in modern history; the twelve years when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army ruled over Germany ...
The arduous path from the colorful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through ...