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Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.
In the last winter of the Second World ...
Horrible histories for adults, these gruesome, bizarre and often hilarious medical case histories trace the evolution of modern medicine and the astonishing resilience of human ...
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They ...
'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE SPECTATOR
'A charming, absorbing and history ...
Replete with royal conspiracies as venomous as the toxins they used to obtain power, beauty and revenge. The story of poison is the story of ...
'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft ...
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness ...
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Hashtags can silence ...
Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to research and ...
Charting the many and varied ways the coconut has shaped and continues to shape our world. Such disparate characters as an English earl, an American ...
RISE AND FALL opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense ...
A ground-breaking work of narrative non-fiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on human history.
What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American ...
From one of the world's leading scholars of Russia and former ambassador, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to ...
Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and ...