Trawl through centuries of tattooing in this eye-popping history of the art of body decoration. From modest, discreet symbols to astonishing full-body adornments, the wonders...
Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes... We start with Romulus, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious...
'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOEPeople have been drawing lines on...
Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the masterful movies of Quentin Tarantino, from AK-47 to ",Zed's dead, baby", and everything in...
Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the iconic films of Wes Anderson, from Asteroid City to Steve Zissou and everything in...
In Acts of Resistance, Amber Massie-Blomfield writes about the artists who have treated the protest site as their canvas and contributed to movements that have...
The West does not understand African economics. In a fearless, funny polemic, a historian exposes the blinkered assumptions of centuries of Western interventions on the...
Housing means prosperity and security for some, poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents...
A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing HitlerAfter the fall of...
'Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem.' James Holland'Superb... A military historian of originality and insight...
The uniquely designed Atlas of Lost Cities details the destinies of 44 once-thriving urban centers that are now vacant ruins and empty ghost towns....
THE MUST-READ BOOK ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT'Magnificent&,nbsp,...&,nbsp,As exciting to read as it is important' Peter Frankopan'Fascinating ...&,nbsp,essential reading' Helen Thompson'Alarming and uplifting' John KampfnerThe...
'A splendid book by authors who long ago detected Germany's fragility - and aimed at readers who take no pleasure in the sight...
From the Jim Heimann collection, a seminal collection of classic car ads-from the populism of the Ford Model T in the 1910s, through the sexy,...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise ",A deeply informed account of how the...
A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian)Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized...
Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction...
Set for release on the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution, a riveting, revealing and newsmaking account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by...
Offering a panoramic view of history and a description of firsthand diplomatic encounters, the former Secretary of State describes his ideas about diplomacy and power...
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . ....
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