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Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British ...
WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters ...
The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too ...
All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings ...
In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall ...
Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack ...
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 ...
A potent pantheon of gods, heroes engaged in epic battles, fearsome mythical creatures and supernatural transformations such fantastical elements infuse Greek myths with a wonder ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived ...
A collection of mythological stories from the Vikings, including gods and goddesses such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and Loki.
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 ...