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On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the ...
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a ...
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against ...
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist ...
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the ...
The legacy of Ancient Rome shapes the world we inhabit today. The history of Rome - as a tiny primitive kingdom, as an ever-growing republic, as ...
The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which ...
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold.
Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates ...
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the ...
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast ...
UNDER THE KNIFE, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future ...
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years ...
Geography is getting stranger. Out there fleets of new islands are under construction and eye-wateringly insane micro-nations are struggling into the light; unseen rivers are ...
In 75 Indigenous Protected Areas across the nation, traditional owners are managing their land for a better future. Protected areas are defined areas of land ...
On June 5th, 1968, at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy celebrated his victory in the California Democratic primary with a rousing victory ...