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In this unique memoir, Charles Higham, one of the great archaeologists of his generation, describes the inside story of how his many excavations have introduced ...
Despite attracting headlines and hype, insurgents rarely win. Even when they claim territory and threaten governmental writ, they typically face a military backlash too powerful ...
Major Louis Joseph Vionnet's memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into ...
To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber ...
From the ancient steam locomotives to the latest high-speed models in Europe and China, as well as the first hydrogen-powered convoys, this volume is a ...
The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and skilful ...
Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no mans ...
The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as ...
How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the ...
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that ...
An authoritative visual history of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant cultures, drawing on South Asian art and artefacts from prehistory to ...
From their nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica to reaching the halls of power in Washington, D.C, from the mass-marketing of the ...
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