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In this volume, a dozen star historians discuss what might have happened at history's turning points ... if the dice had fallen differently.

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW ESSAY At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what it means to be an American.

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In this book, Gary Donaldson argues that the 1952 presidential election, which exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, set the stage for the current U.S. political landscape. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left.

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The 1814 invasion of Washington.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. This title introduces a set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, and the principle of contested modernity.

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Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War.

Summer 1945. Six long years of war had profoundly changed family life.

(Paperback, Main)

A compelling work of political and military history, this is a highly original account of the conquest of Mesopotamia in 1914 - Britain's first invasion of Iraq.

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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible.

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A former editorial page writer at the "Wall Street Journal" recaptures the violent instant in which the civil rights movement was nearly derailed.

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"A study of how the struggle over natural law and human rights has transformed the relationship between state and citizen from antiquity to the present"--

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Goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. This title also takes a broader perspective, creating a detailed and evocative portrait of a way of life that is fast disappearing.

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A time capsule for the future of how life was, and the knowledge Ireland's grandparents wish to pass on to the upcoming generation.

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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Corts that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas

On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Corts first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan.

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The Occupation of Paris told in a new light; the effects on its citizens as well as on the city itself.

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A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era - and their dark legacy today.

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The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan.

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True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII.

(Hardback, Main)

Drawn from the Guardian's coverage of the first world war, When the Lamps Went Out portrays a society in cataclysm and proves the adage that journalism is the 'first draft of history'.

(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)

The most dynamic, relevant and exciting history book of the year, shedding a whole new light on overlooked recent history.

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This narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs and shines a light on our perceptions of women in power today.

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This narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs and shines a light on our perceptions of women in power today.

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A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries.