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From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century ...
Hindsight hurts. The British Parliament passes the Townshend Acts, making the American colonies pay for their own defense - which instead starts a revolution. In 1929 ...
Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the ...
In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ...
A new look at the legacy of WWI, a war fought for peace yet followed by a century of devastating violence "The war to end ...
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Instead, it proved to be the ...
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both ...
This book tells the story of the early history of surgery - when surgeons were equipped with just knives, fire and boiling oil. The two events ...
One of the defining features of being human is our capacity for rational thought, for considering the possibilities and weighing up the options in order ...
From the author of "A Splendid Exchange" comes a remarkable history of media - from the alphabet to the internet - that examines how it has shaped ...
The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
"All stories begin with 'Once upon a ...