The Persian War: A Military History by William Shepherd
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Category: History | Series: General Military Ser.
The victory of a few Greek city-states over the world's first superpower was an extraordinary military feat that secured the future of western civilization. All modern accounts of the war as a whole, and of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, the best-known battles, depend on the ancient sources, foremos ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: History | Reading Level: good
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
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Category: Social Issues | Reading Level: good-very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War o ...Show more
Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne
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Category: Social Issues
"Size discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was bor ...Show more
Vikings by Neil Oliver
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. ...Show more
Wild Sea - A History of the Southern Ocean by Joy McCann
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Flowing completely around the Earth and unimpeded by any landmass, the wild and elusive Southern Ocean reaches from the seasonally-shifting icy continent of Antarctica to the southern coastlines and islands of Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. In Wild Sea, Joy McCann interweaves th ...Show more
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: Social Issues
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
1939: A People's History by Frederick Taylor
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Category: History
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would h ...Show more
30-Second Ancient Egypt: The 50 most important achievements of a timeless civilization, each explained in half a minute by Peter Der Manuelian
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Category: History
We've all heard of pyramids, hieroglyphs, and Cleopatra, but how much do you really know about ancient Egypt?
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
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Category: History | Series: Brief History of Asia Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost ...Show more
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx by Jerry Toner
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Category: History | Series: The\Marcus Sidonius Falx Trilogy Ser.
The first ever travel guide to the Roman Empire. 'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' - The Times Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before tre ...Show more
A History and Genealogy of the Davenport FamilyIn England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850 by Amzi Benedict Davenport
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Category: Genealogy
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as ...Show more