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Thermopylae might be the most famous battlefield in history. Tens of thousands of people have lost their lives fighting over this ground over the millennia ...
One of the most enigmatic figures of antiquity, Tiberius lacked the imperial splendour of his great predecessor Augustus and the excesses of many of his ...
The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live
Fareed Zakaria first warned of ...
One of Britain's most popular public philosophers presents unexpected, hopeful lessons from human history that could help us to overcome the global challenges facing ...
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart
Over the course of a decade from 2010 ...
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge ...
A powerful account of German-speaking Europe through five centuries of fighting
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of ...
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Elizabeth's marriage unexpectedly saved the monarchy.
Granted special access by Queen Elizabeth II to her ...
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later ...
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen ...
'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES
14 CE: The first Roman ...
The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the ...
A major new history of one of the world's holiest of cities, based on the most recent archaeological discoveries
First settled five thousand years ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...
'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place ...