No, they weren't 'just friends'!Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians…

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In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A…

This is the remarkable true story of how love led PK to overcome poverty, caste prejudice and adversity - as well as a…

CSI: Ancient Rome – what can everyday killings tell us about the Empire and its people?…

The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world '- rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new…

Blamed for the disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the…

An invitation to discover the two most enduring and exciting stories ever to have been told…

Uncovers one of the most important yet least understood organizations in the world…

Acclaimed popular historian, Philip Matyszak takes readers back to the rise and fall of the world''s first superpower.…

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\nA lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome…

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A new history of the Portugal’s Carnation Revolution on its fiftieth anniversary25 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a…

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\nThe bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty\n…

\nBuried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race\n…

\nThe forgotten story of Britain\'s own Hindenburg disaster.\n…

\nA groundbreaking study of the Iranian People\'s Fada\'i Guerrillas, their ideology, actions and impact on the 1979…

\nA rich, wide-ranging and accessible introduction to over 2,000 years of history\n…

A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling…

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Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.'Hugely entertaining and…

An indispensable guide to understanding the' Israel'-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it…

Courage and betrayal in Occupied France, involving SOE, British Intelligence, the Gestapo and the French Resistance…

A transformative history '- in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free…

\nA tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of art\n…

All you need to know about WW1 from one of the world's foremost experts…

An accessible introduction to an enigmatic country, covering all the key topics from the times of the legendary samurai to…

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A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh…

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\nAn updated edition of this bestselling introduction to the conflict\n…

The Cold War ended twenty-five years ago, but tensions between Russia and the West are as bad as ever. What happened?…

\nThe extraordinary worlds created in our minds\n…

She was just fifteen when Hitler entered Poland. She survived four years of Nazi terror. Mary Berg's diary is the first…

A doctor''s inspiring obsession with the heart, combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving…

Kniha "Last Empire, The Final Days of the Soviet Union" je fascinujícím pohledem na kolaps Sovětského svazu od renomovaného…

In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous…

He swore an oath to King and Empire... but they forgot him…

The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man''s world…

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A revised edition of this popular and brilliantly concise guide to Russia's turbulent history - from Peter the Great to…

In sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary set of women created a unique culture of feminine power that saw them run the…

A highly respected voice reveals the truth behind the myths in the Middle East''s crucible of conflict…

A story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and…

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Power-hungry seductress... religious revolutionary... innocent victim... traitor - who was the real Anne Boleyn?…

Fully updated: the new edition of this compelling history begins in ancient times, takes us through the Qaddafi era, the…

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This clear and informative guide draws on the words spoken by the Buddha to convey the true nature of Buddhist wisdom.…

A riveting journey through the history of mountaineering '- before Everest.…

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820) was one of Islam's foundational legal thinkers. Shafi'i considered law vital to…

\nWhy do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon?\n…

\nThe poet of the medieval Muslim world who is the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the…

An epic history revealing how the US and Iran went from allies to adversaries over three hundred years…

The first in-depth study of Iran''s maverick liberation theorist of the twentieth century…