History
Anne Boleyn
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, an...
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Isl..
Assyria
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The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian ..
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality In A Counterfeit ...
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We live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity – from living our 'best life' to eating artisan food – matters more and more to us, but where the forces of inauthenticity seem to be taking over. Our world is full of people and products that are not what they seem. We no longer know whether we are..
Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization
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In Babylon, Paul Kriwaçzek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period; he examines its numerous material, social and cultu..
Barca: The Rise And Fall Of The Club That Built Mo...
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Like many world-beating organizations, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders access to the Camp Nou, its legendary home stadium. But after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given access to the inner sanctum and the people behind the scenes who striv..
Between Two Rivers
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Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region that once lay between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the first depiction of a ..
Big History
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Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Ma...
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superb On The Human Consequences Of War, Ravishing In Its Evocations Of Wartime Life' The Times. 'compassionate And Thought-provoking History' Daily Telegraph Less Than A Month After It Marched Into France In Summer 1870, The Prussian Army Had Devastated Its Opponents, Captured Napoleon Iii And Wrec..
Black Book: What If Germany Had Won World War Ii
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In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg of the German Secret Service drew up a list of 2,694 people believed to be living in Britain, who were known enemies of the Reich. In that month, the Wehrmacht was poised across the Channel ready to hit Britain with blitzkrieg, the terrible and hugely successful tac..
Black Flags, Blue Waters – The Epic History of A...
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Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. “Deftly blending scholarship an..
Black Prince
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As a child he was given his own suit of armour; in 1346, at the age of 16, he helped defeat the French at Crécy; and in 1356 he captured the King of France at Poitiers. For the chronicler Jean Froissart, 'He was the flower of all chivalry'; for the Chandos Herald, who fought with him, he was 'the em..