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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of ...
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with ...
A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.
There ...
Drawing on the War Cabinet papers, other government documents, private diaries, newspaper accounts, and memoirs,Never Surrender tells the story of summer of 1940, the ...
The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances.
The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances - and the most original and surprising book ...
The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition.
"An interesting and provocative read, which ...
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicuss ...
The story of the battle of Hattin in 1187, in which the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of ...
Just as this book is being published, Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her ...
William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by ...
Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman ...