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The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of
The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European...
1805 - Tsar Alexander's First War with Napoleon: The Russian Official
The only publicly available translation into English of Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky's official history of the Russian involvement in the fighting against Napoleon's France in 1805, during the War of the Third Coalition....
Notes of a Newsman: Witness to a Changing Scotland
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As a young reporter John MacKay took the first calls on the Lockerbie Bombing. As a news anchor he conducted the final TV interviews of the Yes and No campaigns...
The Generalship of Alexander the Great
At the age of 20, Alexander succeeded his father, Philip of Macedon, and fulfilled his father's plans for freeing the Greeks of Asia Minor from Persian rule. He invaded the...
Gods of the Dawn: The Message of the Pyramids and the True Stargate
The message of the Pyramids and the true Stargate mystery. Peter Lemesurier's 'Great Pyramid Decoded' has now become a worldwide classic. In his new book he develops his ideas beyond...
The Thin Yellow Line
The summary execution by firing squad of confused and shell-shocked British soldiers in World War I by their comrades still arouses heated passions, over eighty years later. Calls for posthumous...
Uluru: An Aboriginal History of Ayers Rock
This well-presented history of Uluru, the major centre of Aboriginal dreaming tracks, Begins with the traditional lives of the Yankuntjatjara and Pitjantjatjara peoples, and traces the changes they experienced by...
A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping
Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances...
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition
"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to battle." Strategy is made of...
The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714
During this period modern English society and a modern state began to take shape, and England's position in the world was transformed. The Century of Revolution tries to penetrate below...
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms
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In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 trial...
Age of Anger: A History of the Present
A compelling, powerful argument about the roots of current global disorder. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit...
The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern History 1789-1945
This well-written dictionary covers the period 1789-1945. It has longer articles on keywords than most of its competitors and has been well reviewed: 'There is one book on my study...
A Concise Companion to Aboriginal History
This book provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries...
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS JGB
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Since her execution at Fotheringay Castle in 1587, the romantic appeal of Mary, Queen of Scots, has fascinated historians, biographers and novelists. The aim of this study is to show...
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome,
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The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the...
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight
Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel...
Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn
Putting culture back in Agriculture. A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future....
The Shortest History of the Crown
Former royal correspondent Stephen Bates lifts the lid on the 1,800 years of power plays, ritual, tradition and intrigue in Britain's monarchy and asks, where to next for the world's...
Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales
Most convicts arriving in New South Wales didn't expect to make their fortunes. Some went on to great success, but countless convicts and free migrants struggled with limited prospects, discrimination...
I Want to be Alone
This book looks at some of history's most fascinating recluses and remarkable loners. Some withdrew from society for religious reasons, as in the case of the hermits and ascetics who...
Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote;...
The Broad Arrow, by Oline Keese
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the...
The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Vol. 3: Maud in Memoriam; The
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Excerpt from The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Vol. 3: Maud in Memoriam; The Princess; Enoch Arden Part II., section IV., had already been published in 1837 in The Tribute;...
Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance
At the height of World War II, a small band of students in Munich, Germany, formed a clandestine organization called the White Rose, which exposed the Nazi regime's murderous atrocities...
Queen Victoria's Family
This album of Queen Victoria's family explores the lives, personalities, tastes and contributions of the Queen, her children and her children's children through four generations. The beginning of the Queen's...
Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern
New York City, 1912: in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret...
From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration
There has never been a greater need for a sober, historically informed yet critical account of immigration policy in Australia. In this revised and updated edition, James Jupp, Australia's leading...
Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters
These true-life adventures unfold amid flames, collisions, and explosions, with frantic calls of SOS and a rush to clamber aboard the lifeboats. Naval historian William H. Miller, Jr., recounts the...
Great Captains Unveiled
Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?-1227) and Sabutai (1172?-1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into...
Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881
[The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." -The Historian This volume, the work...
Tales from the Heart: True Stories from my Childhood
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.' Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the...
A Lady in Kyoto
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be... Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in...
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
The World Since 1945: A Complete History of Global Change from 1945 to
From the origins of the post-war world to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the late 1980s, this masterly book offers an authoritative yet highly readable one-volume account. The...
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering The Legacy Of Poverty In America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you...
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future 'This book upended my understanding of the ancient world' Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light...
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future 'This book upended my understanding of the ancient world' Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light...
The Atlas of Microstates
An ideal gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. Defined as sovereign states with a very small population, land area, or both, microstates serve as fascinating case studies...
The Antisocial Network
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that...
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped...