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August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they were both competing for standing room at the opera. Their mutual passion for music created a ...
'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES
14 CE: The first Roman ...
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen ...
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'.
It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke ...
As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew ...
Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would ...
This is a unique celebration of 100 of the most dramatic and storied lighthouses along the coasts of Britain. Illustrated with fantastic retro art by ...
In What Is Mine, sociologist Jose Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family ...
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material ...
The definitive biography of one of the most sinister men of the twentieth century. The life of the Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten ...
In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the ...
In 55 BC, on a stretch of beach near Deal in East Kent, the Romans' first invasion was in great danger of being pushed back ...
Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in ...
The untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures
In the great revolutionary year ...
The Norman story began in 911, when a frightened French king (Charles III 'the Simple') gave land on the Channel coast to the Viking leader ...