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In August 1862, the Santee (Dakota) Sioux tribe launched a spontaneous revolt against their white neighbours; more than 500 people died. After a quick trial, 38 Santee Sioux were hanged to death in the largest mass execution in US history.

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The Great Tamasha is the story of modern India told through the glitzy, scandalous and mind-blowingly lucrative Twenty20 cricket tournament, the Indian Premier League. The IPL - merging the three forces of politics, business and Bollywood - has transformed cricket and transfixed India like nothing before it.

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An intellectual history of mankind provides an alphabetical listing, with discussion, of the major concepts and beliefs of the world's great thinkers, from ancient times to the present day.

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The most famous example of fortification in the world, the Great Wall of China stretches for more than 4,000 miles across inhospitable terrain. Charting its development since its construction in the 7th century BC, this book reveals the history of the wall, and explores the myths that surround it.

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The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Ford examines the multitude of changes that stemmed from America's first major overseas coalition war, including the new selective service process;

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The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. This book shows views of the war have changed over the years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.

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The definitive story of the fight that decided the fate not only of the American War of 1812, but of the fledgling American Republic.

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Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire.

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This title covers one ot the defining periods of European history. The series of wars between the Classical Greeks and the Persian Empire produced the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, as well as the ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Persian king in 400 BC.

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What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It contains sections on Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius and others.

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From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers.

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The fourteenth century is usually portrayed as a period of retrogression and disaster in European history, but for the transalpine state of Savoy it was a period of glory. During this time almost the entire region between Lombardy and Burgundy was brought under the control of Savoyard rulers. The "buffer state" created between France and Italy hind

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An easy to use A-Z reference resource that provides information on over 2,000 of the most studied and important people, events, places, and ideas in world history from prehistoric to modern times, from all regions and epochs. The topics covered include: world religions and religious figures; scientists and scientific events; and more.

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From the playing fields of Eton via the horrors of the Western Front to the pinnacle of political power in 20th-century Britain a brilliant collective biography of Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisbury, Oliver Lyttleton and Harry Crookshank.

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Eight men went in...only one returned. The harrowing true story of the daring raid on the Japanese occupied island of Muschu in 1945, based on the diary of Sapper Mick Dennis.

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After the Nepal war of 1815, the British were so impressed with the military skills of its warriors that they began recruiting units exclusively from Nepal - the Gurkhas. This illustrated book traces the history of one of the world's most famous elite units through to the present day.