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'Until the lions are taught to write, history will always be written by the hunters'. In the early planning stages of Freedom Park, Robin Binckes ...
This is a fascinating account of the 1890 Afghan campaign, drawing fresh parallels with the current campaign, told through the experiences of one junior officer ...
The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war ...
The book to accompany Oliver Stone's landmark 10-part documentary series, The Untold History of the United States
'This is not history for history's ...
J. S. Durlacher was a Pilbara pastoralist with a great interest in native customs. In 1900 he wrote his reminiscences of these, together with a ...
'An eye-opening book, an intricate and fascinating story' Hilary Mantel 1527. Henry, desperate to marry Anne Boleyn and ensure the Tudor line asks Pope Clement ...
Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and The Crisis of the European Mind is by common consent his masterwork ...
Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by ...
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire-a millennium and a half in the making-was suddenly thrust under ...
In this Samuel Johnson Prize short-listed work of meticulous scholarship, Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain, charts how and why Franco ...
The key to understanding the Arab world today - and in the future - is unlocking its past. John McHugo takes the reader on a journey through ...
This magisterial analysis of human history - from 'Lucy', the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians ...
When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified ...
With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord ...