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Theodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishmentsbut the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back!

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A narrative history of the great Mughal rulers of India.

(Paperback)

The Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE MUGHAL THRONE, mark one of the most crucial and fascinating periods of Indian history.

(Paperback)

From tools and devices to construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores wood the material that shaped human history.

(Paperback)

A provocative challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution.

(Paperback)

The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. Britain was not bombed into classless democracy.

Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 - when Britain 'stood alone' against the Luftwaffe - and of the Myth which sustained her 'finest hour'.

(Paperback, With flaps)

Includes rare illustrations and documents of historic importance.

(Paperback)

Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states.

(Paperback)

Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.

(Hardback)

THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is the first sexual history of the decade when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue, ultimately winning the culture wars.

(Paperback)

The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted.

(Paperback)

Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. In love with Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was sent to a labour camp. So began her life as a 'hidden' Jew, her marriage to a Nazi, her intervention through her husband on behalf of Pepi, and her life at the end of the war in Eastern Germany.

(Paperback)

At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in the war. This highly illustrated study is one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Thackeray's biographer, D.J. Taylor, updates The Book of Snobs (1848) for the twenty-first century. Waspish, acute and very funny.

(Hardback)

A historical look at why making things is a key to improving the world

(Paperback)

This book examines the potential and the problems of the new Turkey, and the expectations of the people who live there, drawing on first hand interviews and observations gathered over several years.

(Paperback, Main)

A wonderful historical caper, telling the farcical tale of attempts to be the first to break the news of the British victory at Waterloo.

(Hardback)

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March 25, 1942 that became the first official transport to Auschwitz.

(Hardback)

The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history.

Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack.