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For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...

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One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embrac...

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new ...

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NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstei...

A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience b...

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Is today's youth over sensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually pathetic?Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our...

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and sh...

INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...

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Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...

WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chr...

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For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge...

An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from t...

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and ...

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Uncover the mysteries of the past with this exciting, comprehensive guide on world history.History books are often filled with long descriptions, c...

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The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale has been a source of fierce contestation and emotion for decades, but up to now little was known about the Recces’ pr...

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The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War - Room...

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...

Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charle...

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A clear, concise and detailed historical analysis of the eclectic and beautiful visual and material culture of paganism. The book begins with an i...

The thing that looms largest in South Africa’s future is South Africa’s past – most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...

For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for thousands of years before that, Britain had bee...

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From bestselling historian Antony Beevor, comes the dramatic story of Russian's revolution and civil war. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating stru...