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Told for the first time, this is the extraordinary story of how an obscure Victorian Scottish minister invented the technology which may take us to the stars.Phillip Hills weaves science and history together to tell the story of one of the most exciting scientific developments the world has ever seen.

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The Storm is Here is a record of a year that changed America.

(Hardback)

This text describes 100 of the world's most important archaeological discoveries. Alongside the well-known are placed the equally important but less familiar, all of which have helped our understanding of the past.

A guide that takes you on a journey back to era of the Grand Tour, when Istanbul was a favourite destination for enterprising travellers. It helps you learn how to gain access to the heavily guarded Topkapi Sarayi and find out the truth behind all those rumours of the charms of the concubines in the sultans harem, and the eunuchs who guard them.

(Hardback)

The gripping and little known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II

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Describing the discovery of the Tarim Mummies and revealing the attempts of scientists to determine their ethnic identity, this book examines the evidence connected with the mummies, including textiles and languages of the Tarim region.

In 206BC, the first emperor of China, Shi Huang-te, decreed that after his death his body should be clothed in jade, cast adrift in a lake of mercury within a pyramid, and protected by an eternal army. In 1974, the first of 7000 life-size terracotta warriors were discovered, but why were they there

In 206BC, the first emperor of China, Shi Huang-te, decreed that after his death his body should be clothed in jade, cast adrift in a lake of mercury within a pyramid, and protected by an eternal army. In 1974, the first of 7000 life-size terracotta warriors were discovered, but why were they there

(Paperback, Unabridged edition)

The story of the courtroom drama that precipitated the rise of the Nazi party.

Illustrated with contemporary artworks, photographs and documents, The Tudors tells the public and private story of England's most famous royal family and the England they ruled.

(Hardback, Main)

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

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Shows the reader what it was really like in everybody's favourite film landscape: the American Wild West in the days of Jesse James and Dodge City. This title offers advice on the boarding houses and filthiest saloons, what to eat, what to wear, who to meet and who to avoid and how to get out of Dodge in a hurry if you fail to spot the difference.

(Hardback)

A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life.

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(Hardback, Main)

Award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the meanings of silence in this collection of provocative and lyrical essays.

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(Hardback)

A memoir of the past and a warning for today: the urgent account of a woman delving into her family's complicity with the Nazis during World War Two.

During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich.

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The bloodiest battle of the Falklands War, retold in extraordinary detail by the men who were there.

(Paperback)

The bloodiest battle of the Falklands War, retold in extraordinary detail by the men who were there.

For nearly two centuries, Thugs haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way. Mike Dahs tells the story of the Thugs' rise and fall from the cult's beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its demise at the hands of British East India Company officer William Sleeman in 1840.

(Paperback)

While the Vietnam War loomed large over the region, the RAN played its part in creating the conditions for the peace and prosperity in Malaysia and Singapore, by bombarding terrorist positions, engaging Indonesian infiltrators in vicious firefights, providing support to land forces, or patiently laying the foundations for the regional navies.

(Hardback)

Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history using concise, insightful, and engaging text summaries alongside timelines, maps, and illustrations, taking readers from the origins of our first ancestors up to the present day.

(, Unabridged edition)

A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains