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Hailed as the definitive biography of Wendell Willkie (Irwin F. Gellman), The Improbable Wendell Willkie offers an engrossing and enlightening appr...

In Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest...

With the sweep of an epic novel, Our Revolution follows Jenny Moore, a charismatic and brilliant woman whose life changed as she became engaged in ...

''History at its scintillating best ... hard-hitting, revelatory and superbly researched'' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destin...

In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and ...

This book tells in detail what it was like to live in an English town constantly under siege from enemy guns in the Second World War. Many towns in...

Karaoke bars with prostitute hostesses are standard fare in Chinese cities, college students accept jobs as highly paid mistresses, sex stores are ...

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropol...

Five weeks after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship for France. The United States would not ...

Portugal''s three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guine-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United S...

The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TVs The David...

Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthie...

En las ultimas decadas los estudios sobre la ciudad hispanoamericana del periodo de dominacion espanola se han visto incrementados con multiples pu...

Much has been written about the worlds first democracy, but no book so far has been dedicated solely to the study of enmity in ancient Athens. Enmi...

Si plus personne n''ose aujourd''hui defendre l''apartheid jadis pratique en Afrique du Sud, ce n''etait pas le cas dans les annees 1970 et 1980. N...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA LITERARY HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER''The best biography yet of the media mag...