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Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest surviving printed book on Italian martial arts. Th...

Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal debate over the last two years--the Cambodian invasion of May-June 1970, the disc...

Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research i...

The term genocidegroup killingwhich first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in i...

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral syst...

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral syst...

British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban comma...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of...

Timely essays from experienced contributors examine the damage recent conflict has caused to cultural heritage, and how it may best be safeguarded ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Magisterial' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Monumental' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement'Every...

'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pikes moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-su...

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the larg...

An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent.The CIA's highly classified Special Activ...

The Number One International Bestseller.The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived the evil Dr Josef Mengeles...