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Nuclear Folly includes newly declassified documents from Russias KGB archives, delving into both sides of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia had orders to fly planes ...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Dead Hand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the final decade of the Cold War. Washington ...
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians
Medicine is one of the great fields of ...
Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how ...
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer ...
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright
In The Map of ...
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory ...
For 700 years, Rome and Persia clashed as the superpowers of the Ancient World. The final phase of their great war is one of the ...
Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth. "Paradises got off ...
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the ...
An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times.
The world's first great empires established by the ancient ...
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...