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'I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of time.'
TOM HOLLAND
'Tender, moving and vivid.'
ROBERT MACFARLANE
'Beautiful'
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'Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully ..
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Take an exhilarating ride through the ever-changing world of mobile warfare, across hundreds of pages of dramatic photography and evocative text with The Military Transport Book.
Get up close to more than 400 of the most important and ground breaking examples ever built: jump aboard a K..
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The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing toilet. In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday. How did this vast land, long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures, come to be dominated by English speakers? How has..
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Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another?
Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be a..
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Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state – a bulwark against the Russians and a block on Prussian expansion. Alas, there was no opportunity Augustus did not waste and no decisi..
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"Nexus" considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age through the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, ..
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Rethinking the history of the last thirteen centuries, in Crucible of Light, Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds.
Focusing on major turning points, individual stories and key places, from Mecca to Cordoba, from Damascus to Venice, a..
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Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use o..
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An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the HWA Non-fiction Crown Award
‘A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism’ FINANCIAL TIMES
This is the first major history..
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*Winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2025*
*Winner of the the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2025*
‘Dazzling… brilliant… exactly the kind of history that we need on our crisis-ridden planet’ - Tom Simpson, TLS
In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humani..
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'A truly splendid read, richly detailed and powered by an unfailing gift for storytelling' John Guy
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A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra.
When Alexander..
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The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past.
Such events are the subject of Days that Changed the World. Some o..
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