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Storm from the East: Genghis Khan and the Mongols
The greatest conquest in history Genghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexander's: his successors went on to conquer and govern an area stretching from Korea...
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding
An "essential" (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition ) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how...
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars...
The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline
From the Battle of Bull Run to current-day Iraq, war has fascinated some of the finest writers of the past two centuries, and now over a hundred of their vivid...
101 Stumbles in the March of History: What if the Great Mistakes in
Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History, offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes-from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition...
Exiles: Three Island Journeys
'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' - EDMUND DE WAAL 'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.'- ANDREA WULF,...
Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE IN HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 'In this powerful book, Steve Crawshaw, who has devoted his career to the pursuit of international justice, eloquently confronts one...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of...
Martin Scorsese: A Journey
Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a...
Equality: The history of an elusive idea
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other
TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day of the year. With infectious wit and historical insight,...
Batavia's Graveyard
When the Dutch East Indian Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board....
The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers,
This anthology looks at a broad, international cross-section of literary talent cut short by the 1914-18 War and is published to coincide with the Armistice Festival on the 70th anniversary...
Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE IN HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 'In this powerful book, Steve Crawshaw, who has devoted his career to the pursuit of international justice, eloquently confronts one...
Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.
Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
First Encounters
A book of first contact moments drawn from over 500 years of human exploration, adventure and discovery. Divided into sections such as 'Fabled Encounters in the Old World', 'The Great...
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
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On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania --pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest...
Reporting from the Wars 1850 - 2015: The origins and evolution of the
From the foundations of the world's first great empires to the empires of today, war has preoccupied human civilisation for as many as 4000 years. It has fascinated, horrified, thrilled,...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Now a major documentary series
The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY Longlisted for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our...
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them...
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on...
Notorious: History's Villains and Why They Matter
History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at...
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of...
The Gates of Europe (Revised Edition): A History of Ukraine
A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is "an exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country" ( Wall Street Journal). As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing...
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World
A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first...
Anzac Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of World War Two
Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from the jungles of New Guinea and South-East Asia to the mountains of...
The Pivot of Power: Australian Prime Ministers and Political
The prime ministership remains the main prize in Australian politics, but it is a precarious one. Leadership turnover in recent years has seen more prime ministers rise and fall than...
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875
The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic...
The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
For centuries, some of the most brilliant minds in Europe searched for the rules of nature's game. In a world full of plagues and poisons, many medicines were made from...
Golden State: The Making of California
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
Who's There: Travels in Place and Time
I have invented nothing, but memory weaves its own histories. These are travel stories, ranging in time and place. Some are memories of a re-imagined past, others more personal. Simon...
How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings,
More than 800 years have past since the last barbarian horde slaughtered and plundered its way across Asia and Europe, yet civilized folks are still fascinated by tales of these...
Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Iraq
News about the ongoing situation in Iraq dominates the news. From the almost daily terrorist incidents to difficulties encountered by the U.S. forces there to manage the changeover of power...
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of
At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish migr Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise...
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death...
Extreme War: The Biggest, Best, Bloodiest and Worst in Warfare
A roster of record-breakers in the sphere of military endeavour, spanning 4,000 years of human conflict. Organised by time period, with a detailed introduction at the beginning of each section,...
Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, and War
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The book titled Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, and War by the author Benson Bobrick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
From the Front: The Story of War Through Correspondence
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Discover the fascinating role journalism has played in war - in recording it, in helping determine its strategies, and in the final impressions of wars in history. This book gives...
Flight: The Complete History
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From the early pioneers to the latest spaceflight technology, this groundbreaking book charts the inspirational story behind humankind's conquest of the skies. In the 100 years since the Wright brothers'...
Fanfare for Elizabeth
An imaginative reconstruction of the mind of the young girl who was to become Queen Elizabeth I of England, that effulgent, daunting, and perplexing figure, one of the most influential...
Renaissance
After a thousand years of magic and mysticism, the Renaissance re-kindled the desire of mankind to understand themselves and the world around them. This volume examines the Renaissance, its myths,...
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover...
Danger and Survival #
The book titled Danger and Survival # by the author McGeorge Bundy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers: Tales of Bitter Rivalry That
When we consider the Herculean figures on the long road to reason and the contributions they have made to our modern worldview, it is only natural to wonder what drove...