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As Napoleon once observed, history is largely a set of lies agreed upon by the winners and, once a lie attains the dignity of age ...
In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. Laughing Shall ...
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had ...
The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that ...
An extraordinary and eye-opening account of the pivotal events during the thirteen months between 1947-1948 that shaped the world we know today.
Two years after ...
The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world ...
Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain's most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...