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Winston Churchill, the great wartime leader and peacetime Prime Minister, is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original ...
On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on ...
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in ...
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to ...
Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond ...
What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. But what if that ...
At the time of Jesus's birth, the world was in ferment. Across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia -societies rife with gods ...
Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the ...
Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the ...
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost ...
Provides an early record of the people of the Musgrave, Mann and Tomkinson Ranges (now known as the the Antakarinja, Yankuntjatjara, Luritja and Pitjantjatjara) in ...
Christianity was born nearly 2000 years ago in ancient Palestine. It has shaped the course of human history. Yet historians still cannot say how it ...