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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series- short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback
Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415 ...
At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the ...
When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest and most powerful empire in ...
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke ...
Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin ...
More than any other, Christianity is the world's first truly global faith. Lying at the heart of Western civilisation, Christianity has spread everywhere, and ...
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 ...
VICEROYS is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of ...
"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and ...
"Anyone who wants to understand the United States' racial divisions will learn a lot from reading Kaplan's richly researched account of one of the ...
A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from ...
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In six weeks in 1940, France's armies were decisively beaten by Germany. A junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to ...