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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From the Crusades and the Knights Templar to courtly love and the battles of Agincourt and Crécy, this award-winning work illuminates the historical reality of an ideal which transformed European society.
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The novels of Charles Dickens were translated into many foreign languages during his lifetime, and in 1837 he began to travel abroad regularly to give very successful readings from his own works. Dickens in Europe is his account of these peregrinations through France, Switzerland and Italy.
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This selection of celebrated essays by Charles Dickens conjures up a peerless, eyewitness account of the 19th-century capital, from the rarefied world of Whitehall to working-class conviviality and blighted slums.
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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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The most fascinating work of oral and documentary history ever written about Victorian London, and an influence on many writers, most notably Dickens.
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