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These are the stories of fifty countries that once existed - however briefly - but have now have been erased from the map. Varying vastly in size ...
A tongue-in-cheek guide to becoming a dictator, based on the outrageous,
scandalous, and excessive behavior of dictators past and present
Who hasn't dreamed of ...
The Library- A Catalogue of Wonders is a love letter to libraries not just as mere collections of books, but as magical, fabled places.
Libraries ...
Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, PRIMITIVE REBELS, he ...
'Flesh and Blood is living drama extracted like buried treasure from old documents and the hand-me-down stories of his relatives. I couldn't put it ...
An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history
Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two ...
Hundreds of islands that once appeared on nautical charts and general atlases are now known to have vanished-or never even existed. How were they detected ...
Part memoir, part biography, part cultural meander, an irresistibly intelligent literary walk through the lives of wandering women- about how, by putting one foot in ...
In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town ...
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman ...
The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific ...
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But ...
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their ...