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From Ervand Abrahamian, a leading historian on the Middle East, comes a lucid account of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran and how it ...
In this engaging and ambitious work, John Romer aims to refocus the gaze of the non-specialist away from the Pharaonic period (about which there are ...
The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe ...
Some of Urumchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years-contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these ...
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of ...
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was ...
On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an ...
'Let the nations rejoice- this history of Europe is a truly glorious book' John Adamson, Sunday Times
'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one ...
2 Volume Set - AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURE SERIES N0. 9The Arunta represents Spencer and Gillen's consummate account of an Aboriginal group untouched by modern civilisation ...
In June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. That night he awoke screaming that traitors ...
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today- slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing ...