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Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to ...
The epic story of one family's flight from England and the life they forged amongst the Indians in America
A Times History Book of ...
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the ...
A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as an incomparable politician, deal-maker and ...
Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways ...
Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the ...
A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war - the defining event of modern Irish politics.
The Irish Civil ...
A classic work of reportage about the Katyn Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the atrocity himself.
A classic work ...
In this magisterial history, David Nirenberg explores anti-Judaism from antiquity to the present, from the Ancient Egyptians who resented their Jewish neighbours to the ideas ...
'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand ...
By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against the axis powers, but three great Allied leaders--Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph ...
The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- ...
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti ...