History

The Jungle Survival Pocket Manual brings together the official manuals and information that enabled the Allies to fight in Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indochina, Singapore and the Pacific Islands and win the war. During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging ...

Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, this volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide, and places them in a global context. It identifies the moments of radicalization, and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the indigenous populations.

A personal and insightful look at the extraordinary life and times of eyewear from the Ancient Greeks to Google Glass by the author of The Bus We Loved and A Walk in the Park.

A compelling portrait of the Age of Discovery that uncovers some surprising truths about the Tudor navigators - and asks why and how these facts have been submerged for centuries.

In this lined journal, each page has ample space for your thoughts and notes, and features a key, insightful quote from Sun Tsu's famous and much-read work. The Art of War Journal is the perfect place for you to record your thoughts - and be inspired by ancient Chinese military wisdom.

London is one of the greatest cities on earth. Sprawling along the length of the River Thames its history goes back two millennia. The capital's dramatic past and cultural life, together with the long heritage that underpins it, has made London one of the best-loved and most visited places in the world.
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Follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture and a discussion of modern scientific mummy analysis. This work is useful for scholars of ancient Egypt, those interested in the rituals of death, students of the occult, children studying history, and film buffs.

Nobody could have predicted the devastating September 11th attacks that shook the United States and raised a specter of remarkable uncertainty over American history, economy, iconic images, and the country's future. However, at one of the lowest points in American history, the celebrations of all things ...

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer," delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors-their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot's ...

Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi championed the rights of women and girls, and became ...

In this riveting work of narrative history, veteran reporter John Bainbridge, Jr. vividly brings to life five charismatic and idiosyncratic men who, living within ninety miles of one another, changed the course of history through the invention and refinement of the repeating firearm-the precursor to today's automatic weapon.

An exhilarating real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution - then switched sides to try to bring him down

The bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty

Falklands War Heroes is the latest book in the best-selling "Heroes" series by Michael Ashcroft [Lord Ashcroft]. It is the author's seventh book on bravery and it will be full of action-packed, true stories of great courage during the 1982 war.

War, revolution and love - dazzling medieval history from a rising star

A historical overview of the revival of a region so heavily scourged by the Great War and new insights a century on.