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The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages ...
A definitive new history of Japan, where ancient meets cutting-edge in unique and startling ways
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The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed historian
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ...
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Thermopylae might be the most famous battlefield in history. Tens of thousands of people have lost their lives fighting over this ground over the millennia ...
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The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters.
Millions of visitors flood to Venice ...
A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day.
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This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.
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