The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
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Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
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Category: History
An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that ...Show more
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
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Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' Telegraph What was it really like to rule and be ru ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
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Category: History
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
No Road Leading Back by Chris Heath
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Category: History
This shattering and inspiring account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and imprisonment by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
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Category: History
'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' —Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' —Sunday Times From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
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Category: History
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon
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Category: History
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change. The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities — and, of course, its wine.From the ancient Greeks to the Medici, and from fascism to feminism ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
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Category: History
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
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Category: History
Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more
Chernobyl: The Fall of Atomgrad by Matyáš Namai
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Category: History
A powerful re-imagining of the world's largest nuclear disaster from the creator of the bestselling graphic novel George Orwell's 1984. The Atoms for Peace program was adopted in Russia to help the Soviet Union overtake the West's nuclear power superiority. Instead, it resulted in the creation of a radi ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
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Category: History
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more