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When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and ...
November 12, 1941: war and revolution are in the air. At the Shanghai Race Club, the city's elite prepare to face off their best ...
A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East ...
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been ...
When the fall of the Berlin Wall ended the Cold War, the American political establishment felt it had prevailed in a cosmic struggle of world-historical ...
A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka ...
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
'Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap ...
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of ...
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as ...
The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.
During the bloody and uncertain days of the Wars ...
WINNER of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in ...
By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and ...
In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings ...
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth ...
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history
Named One of the New York Times Critics ...