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Brought to you by Penguin. The story of the ancient world’s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it.…

Tells the narrative of the Second World War.…

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME,…

They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This…

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'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states.…

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERThe prize-winning bestselling historian delivers the first authoritative general account for…

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the…

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The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris…

Offers a collection of ten biographies that spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and…

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The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to…

A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding…

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'.…

Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of…

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In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the…

Provides an eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow…

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Offers a both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked. This book shows how…

Americans in power have abused and subjugated others since the nation''s very beginning, and myths of America''s unique…

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Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating…

"The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History" illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in…

The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London In the 1940s, it was…

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In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic…

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Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where…

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Formulated in 1904, the Conjecture promised to describe the shape of the universe, but remained unproven until a huge prize…

In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German…

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Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage…

George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: "Turing's Cathedral" is the story behind how the PC,…

The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an exhausted army of Western European soldiers was one of the extraordinary events of the…

Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, this book chronologically…

The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to…

In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million…

At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in…

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Drawing on a cache of personal documents, the author retraces Bruno Langbehn's journey from disillusioned adolescent to SS…

The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in…

Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary…

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the…

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? What if Nazi Germany had…

This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's…

Begins with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concludes at the end of the reign of William III in 1702. This book presents…

Can the world be governed by agreement rather than conflict? In 1945 the world's powerful nation states came together to…

Presents an account of the Atlantic slave trade which helps us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful…

When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author…

Walking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose…

In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs.…

One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, "Tristan", written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval…

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Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility…

Contains three stories from Sallust: Catiline's War - tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc; The Jugurthine War - describes…