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Synopsis Subtitled : South Africa's Road to Freedom. This is the remarkable story of modern South Africa, presented in a clear, concise and compell...

Synopsis Subtitled : How the Classical World Came Back to Us. So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an a...

Synopsis Subtitled : The History of World War II. From pre-eminent historian Michael Burleigh comes a brilliant examination of the Second World War...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas. Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin M...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Life of a Roman Town. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize 2008. The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius i...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Fight For Freedom. A New York Times Bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017. . . . "Their paths neve...

Synopsis Full Title : Lessons from History : hidden heroes and villains of the past, and what we can learn from them. Lessons from History is a joy...

Synopsis Full title - Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East. The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation...

Synopsis Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position o...

Synopsis Paying tribute to 'the essential contribution of sailors and their ships to the evolving history of the human world’, Brian Lavery’s histo...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in...

Synopsis Edited by Leslie Bethell. Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about the ...

Synopsis Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography credited to South African President Nelson Mandela. It was ghostwritten by Richard Stengel and ...

Synopsis Ever since people first took to the water, boats and ships have had a unique influence on our history. Ship unveils the drama, splendour, ...

Synopsis " . . . Myths are stories that are based on tradition. Some may have factual origins, while others are completely fictional. But myths are...

Synopsis In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current ...

Synopsis A Pelican Introduction. What makes us human? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has be...

Synopsis Selected by Stephen Pickles. A beautifully packaged annual featuring the best of old favourites, "Look and Learn" fondly remembered by t...

Synopsis Subtitled : Great Commanders of The Ancient & Medieval World. Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Rom...

Synopsis The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination...

Synopsis The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, trac...

Synopsis Edited by Charlotte Mosley. The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and...

Synopsis The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st Century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up o...

Synopsis Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to ‘Joe-1’, the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949. A...