From Wonders of the World to inventions, journeys, mysteries and nation's histories - explore these absorbing titles.
A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past.
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This best-selling Folio Society edition of David Chandler’s epic military history charts Napoleon’s remarkable progress through the major campaigns of his career and shows that his downfall, when it came, was as dramatic and heroic as his rise.
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Counts as 3 volumes
Editor Ian Fletcher, one of the leading authorities on Wellington's campaigns, has skilfully woven together over 700 extracts to form a chronological narrative of events.
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Counts as 3 volumes
An immediate and exhilarating account of wartime resistance written by one of the runners who risked his life to carry messages, smuggle arms and guide Allied soldiers across Crete’s treacherous mountain terrain.
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History as it really happened - Gripping accounts of great events spanning over 4,000 years. Our story begins with hieroglyphics and ends with the BlackBerry. Compiled and edited by esteemed journalist and historian Robert Fox.
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Counts as 4 volumes
Benjamin Franklin was an unrivalled polymath and the intellectual architect of many revolutionary ideas, yet he started his career as a runaway with a few coins in his pocket. This acclaimed biography is part of a Folio collection of America's Founding Fathers.
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In examining the many-faceted character of Thomas Jefferson – farmer, inventor, natural historian, architect, brilliant lawyer and politician – Pulitzer-Prize-nominated historian, R. B. Bernstein reveals the complexity and passion of the author of the Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington, commander-in-chief of the army and America's first president, remains the most celebrated figure in the pantheon of the American Revolution. Ellis’s aim was to create ‘not another epic, but rather a fresh portrait’. The result is a landmark work.
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Eminent historian Albert Hourani distils a lifetime of learning into his remarkable history of the Arab peoples, from the 7th century - when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula - to the present day.
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Angie Debo's comprehensive and compassionate account provides an unrivalled history of American Indians from the dawn of their first contact with Europeans to the late twentieth century.
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Through the 'roaring twenties', the Wall Street crash, the abdication of Edward VIII and the rise of fascism, The Long Weekend is a 'breathless descriptive survey' (Times Literary Supplement) of Great Britain between the wars.
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Whether viewed as an inspired leader or obsessed tyrant, few individuals have left such a mark on history as Napoleon. Georges Lefebvre’s classic work, published here in a single volume in English for the first time, is a definitive portrait of the Napoleonic era.
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George Catlin's pictorial record of Indian peoples is one of the wonders of 19th-century art, while his account of their customs and lives is authentic and fascinating. This edition combines highlights of Catlin’s prose and his renowned paintings.
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The story of the American revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, is often celebrated as the triumph of heroic American patriots over tyrannical imperialists. Yet, as this gripping and detailed account reveals, it hardly seemed like that to those who lived through it.
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Achieving universal recognition through Steven Spielberg’s multi-Academy Award winning film, Schindler’s Ark tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, the unlikely saviour of over 1,300 Jews during one of history’s darkest periods.
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