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Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day.
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A uniquely illustrated guide to the history of our world
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Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters
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We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our understanding of these ...
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story ...
Nuclear Folly includes newly declassified documents from Russias KGB archives, delving into both sides of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia had orders to fly planes ...
A broad-ranging history of defectors from the Communist world to the West and how their Cold War treatment shaped present-day restrictions on cross-border movement.Defectors ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS
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From Stonehenge to microchips, discover the one simple method used to engineer the world as we know it
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Maps that Made History is like a 1000-year-long journey around the world; every one of the carefully selected maps featured here has influenced the course ...
Solve intriguing and challenging puzzles based on the world-renowned British Museum collection.
The Rosetta Stone, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Assyrian reliefs, the Lewis Chessmen: many mysteries of ...
