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For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, but also a ...
Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation-and Henry VIII ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From the author ofA. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals-and most misunderstood presidents
Winner of ...
At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a ...
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the ...
Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World ...
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther
The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation ...
A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today ...
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times-a period of unprecedented economic growth ...
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first ...
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was ...
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940: seemingly ...
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals - from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet ...
'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore
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It is the century about which we know too much ...