History books

and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal life-forming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.The...  Read More >>

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Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law - legislation, policies, institutions, treaties...  Read More >>

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As the Soviet Red Army marches westward, the city of Budapest stands in their way. Encircled and severely outnumbered,...  Read More >>

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Mary Kenny O-Sullivan was co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League, she understood first hand the difficulties...  Read More >>

Aside from the havoc wreaked by the Civil War bombardment, Charleston has endured a succession of fires, hurricanes...  Read More >>

The Sunday Times bestseller on race and class in the UK, from the MOBO award-winning musician Akala  Read More >>

The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge - the man John le Carre called `the spy to end spies', and whose actions...  Read More >>

An up-to-date commentary on a pivotal section of Xenophon's Anabasis aimed at undergraduates. Advanced students...  Read More >>

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Since the Gulf War, the Abrams tank has undergone a transformation, while fighting in conflicts across the world....  Read More >>

McDonnell's F-101 Voodoo series was in many ways the most interesting of the `Century Series' fighter programmes...  Read More >>

At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line;...  Read More >>

The Soviet Union had developed a significant sniping force by 1939, but the extraordinary skill and cunning displayed...  Read More >>

Following the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1941, the Waffen-SS began recruiting volunteers to serve in their ranks....  Read More >>

This compact gift book takes thirty of World War II's most significant clashes, both the famous and the lesser known,...  Read More >>

Tara Nummedal reconstructs the extraordinary career and historical afterlife of alchemist, courtier, and prophet...  Read More >>

This is the first accessible historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific...  Read More >>

Rachel M. Stein brings the study of revenge into the field of international relations, arguing that the more violent...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and tolerance by investigating the Christian protection...  Read More >>

Using examples from Rome to Tahiti, Strathern sets out a new way of thinking about religion and its changing relationship...  Read More >>

This entirely new, comprehensive reference grammar of Classical Greek is aimed at students, teachers and academics....  Read More >>