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A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times'One of the liveliest…

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The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries…

'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of…

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The al-Khalidi family has walked the streets of Jerusalem for more than a thousand years. Now, celebrated scholar Rashid…

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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR''A triumph'' Guardian''Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and…

Well written ... fascinating ... [captures] that strange 1970s heyday of the counter-culture when almost every student, it…

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Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in…

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In 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose…

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An intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Kniha 9781788161312…

Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and…

''Kindness and co-operation have played a crucial role in raising humans to the top of the evolutionary tree ... We have…

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Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was…

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Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego…

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The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial…

Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not…

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Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories.…

Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in…

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At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150…

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The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history In this magnum opus,…

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Salomé was bullied for years and no one did a single thing to help her.One day she finally snapped.Now at just sixteen years…

A ground breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the most ambitious scale by a brilliant young…

'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong…

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History is dominated by A-list deaths: queens beheaded; archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did…

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The first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers who crafted unimaginably strong steel millennia before it should have been…