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Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the acclaimed multi-million copy bestseller Team of Rivals, filmed by Spielberg as Lincoln, turns to the birth of America's ...
On 16 August 1819 on St Peter's Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabre-wielding ...
In Antony Cummins' new work, the hidden life of Old Japan is brought to the fore using newly translated original documents from the times of ...
Michael Palin Monty Python star and television globetrotter brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic ...
Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the ...
The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic ...
More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob ...
Whilst there have been many books about
Churchill and several biographies of Clement Attlee, few have focused on the
relationship between these two very different ...
Cook led a scientific expedition to
observe the transit of Venus in Tahiti, circumnavigated New Zealand and
established that it was two separate islands, and ...
The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and ...
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A short, focused history of the politics of Reconstruction in a changing America. On December 5, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant transmitted his eighth and ...
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the ...
Thrilling Japanese
stories of vampires, ghosts and renegade samurai.
Step back through the mists of time to ancient Japan, where
wandering samurai seek revenge for ...