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Since the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia to plunder their vast treasures. In ...
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - the new biography of Teddy Roosevelt from the bestselling author of Team of Rivals, the inspiration for Spielberg ...
'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman
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On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an ...
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 ...
A landmark history of postwar America and the second volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric FonerIn this momentous ...
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 ...
Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. From his birth into ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...