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Sky Men
Seventy years ago the army's elite air assault force, the Parachute Regiment was formed, tough and well-trained, designed to fight hazardous operations behind enemy lines, with little or no backup.These...
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
Grand Canyon National Park: Past and Present
The Grand Canyon was destined to become an American treasure. Unparalleled in its enormity, visitors come from all over the world to experience this great place. From prospectors and homesteaders...
Mitchell's New General Atlas 1860
In 1860, Augustus Mitchell Jr. printed one of the world's most accurate and artistic atlases. This reproduction of 'Mitchell's New General Atlas' restores all 76 maps from the original plus...
Forgotten Women: The Leaders
FORGOTTEN WOMEN is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt...
The Story of English: An Extraordinary Journey
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Have you ever wondered where the roots of the English language lie? This notebook gives you an overview of the transformation of English from being an obscure Germanic dialect to...
German U-Boat Ace Rolf Mutzelburg: The Patrols of U-203 in World War
German naval officer Rolf Mutzelburg was one of the outstanding figures of the WWII German U-boat arm. After obtaining regular successes against the North Atlantic convoys during his first four...
The Fourth Horseman: Short History of Epidemics, Plagues and Other Scourges
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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived it
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Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
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1914: Fight the Good Fight
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Plague, Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History
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The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
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The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years
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My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of
From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'Brien Whether it's...
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' - Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of...
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
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Speeches That Changed the World
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Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's
Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in...
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution-leading to the violent attack on the Capitol...
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe
Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. Over 5,000 British, Commonwealth and...
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked...
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the
The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.There is a rich history...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries. Whether or not we trace our families from beyond...
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the...
Vital Organs
...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of flesh and blood. It is through this most intimate...
A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers
Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the...
Worlds at War
The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's
Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
We are all descended from migrants. Humans are, in in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. Migration is one of the most toxically controversial...
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the...
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor
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From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
London: the Autobiography
In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to...
Nelson Touch: the Life and the Legend of Admiral Horatio
Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a...
Supreme Commander: Macarthur's Triumph in Japan
He is the most decorated general in American history-and the only five five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur's greatest victory was not in war but...
The Napoleonic Wars
This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who...
The Making of Medieval History
Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which...
His Own Man
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Brief Lives
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The Lowbrow Guide to World History
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Leviathan - Revised Edition
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True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: World History: 500 Preposterous
Turkeys used to be worshipped as gods? Bull$#*t! Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 world history facts that sound too absurd to be true.Knowledge is...