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'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe ...
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other ...
A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS
'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr
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From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world ...
Following the runaway success of his Big Book of Numbers and World of Numbers, Adam Spencer is back with a wild ride through the ages ...
Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having ...
The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of ...
The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful ...
Through this magnificent collection of historical maps, travel writer Francisca Matteoli takes us on a geographical adventure, telling the stories of twenty-three places and voyages ...
Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World ...
'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore
'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound
It is the century about which we know too much ...
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940: seemingly ...
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was ...
The Land Is Our History tells the story of indigenous legal activism at a critical political and cultural juncture in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand ...
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Heat and fire have been at humanity's command for at least 100,000 years, but ...
