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Uncovering one of the world's greatest civilisations

In this lined journal, each page has ample space for your thoughts and notes, and features a key, insightful quote from Sun Tsu's famous and much-read work. The Art of War Journal is the perfect place for you to record your thoughts - and be inspired by ancient Chinese military wisdom.

Follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture and a discussion of modern scientific mummy analysis. This work is useful for scholars of ancient Egypt, those interested in the rituals of death, students of the occult, children studying history, and film buffs.

Nobody could have predicted the devastating September 11th attacks that shook the United States and raised a specter of remarkable uncertainty over American history, economy, iconic images, and the country's future. However, at one of the lowest points in American history, the celebrations of all things ...

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837

Shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning.

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

A gripping historical account of Cold War subversion and revolution in post-colonial Africa, with crucial lessons for today.

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer," delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors-their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot's ...

The bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty

Dispensing with the patriarchal bullshit, Kirsty Loehr exposes centuries of outrageous straightwashing

In this riveting work of narrative history, veteran reporter John Bainbridge, Jr. vividly brings to life five charismatic and idiosyncratic men who, living within ninety miles of one another, changed the course of history through the invention and refinement of the repeating firearm-the precursor to today's automatic weapon.

An exhilarating real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution - then switched sides to try to bring him down

The years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain's political landscape for ever. In this wide-ranging and sometimes controversial survey, one of our pre-eminent political historians dispels the popular myths that have grown up about this critical period in Britain's story and argues that it set the scene for much that is laudable about our nation today.

The bestselling historian finds a new way to look at the most famous English royal dynasty

Falklands War Heroes is the latest book in the best-selling "Heroes" series by Michael Ashcroft [Lord Ashcroft]. It is the author's seventh book on bravery and it will be full of action-packed, true stories of great courage during the 1982 war.

The untold story of what the Stasi did next

A historical overview of the revival of a region so heavily scourged by the Great War and new insights a century on.