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A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation
"A masterful history."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Faragher takes the reader ...
Gyles Brandreth's witty guide to British history, from Stonehenge and Boudicca to Brexit and Megxit, in delightful 60-second instalments - now in paperback
The story ...
A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed
In ...
This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired ...
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain ...
The Crusades were among the most astonishing historical events that took place during the Middle Ages. After centuries of relative isolation following the fall of ...
Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how ...
In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey ...
Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of ...
TELEGRAPH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'.
Coffee with Hitler ...
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable ...
The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria
'A work of ...
Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages ...
Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War. It tells the story of the collapse ...
The bloody history of Britain through the stories of its most notorious traitors
A History of Treason details British history from 1351 to 1945, covering ...
