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On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the ...
The pre-eminent historian of his day, Edward Gibbon (1737-94) produced his magnum opus in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. Reissued here is the authoritative ...
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even ...
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age ...
Hu Feng, the "counterrevolutionary" leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in Chinese Communist Party prison system. But back in the early days ...
Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln's order went into effect, this book offers readers a unique look at the events that ...
Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority, this is the first major attempt in nearly eighty years to deal with the core ...
David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to ...
We think of the Renaissance as a shining era of human achievementa pinnacle of artistic genius and humanist brilliance, the time of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and ...