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Reissued with a striking new cover, the classic account of one of the most dramatic final acts in modern history: the collapse of the Third ...
In April 1945, Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies ...
Comprehensive yet pithy, this title tells you everything you need to know about the world's major historical events.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with her mother, Kerstin Lieff has recreated Margarete's story from her childhood and her child's ...
Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. This revelatory new ...
The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not ...
National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually ...
"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to ...
A biography of Lonek Lew, the author's father, told through the lives of over twenty people he was friendly or associated with, a number ...
"Restless Empire" examines the past 250 years of Chinese history - in particular China's foreign relations - to consider the issues and preoccupations that have haunted ...
Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian Age but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power in ...
Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and formally recognised as such by her subjects. Beyond ...
The myth of return was sacred to the majority of the Irish who left the 'ould sod' to work in post-war Britain. Generally this dream ...