World History
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All Good Things
Stephen Ellcock
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Stephen Ellcock has an international following who avidly await his daily Facebook and Instagram uploads...
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The Colour of Time
Dan Jones & Marina Amaral
Read more ▸ Order ▸A New History of the World, 1850-1960
‘The Colour of Time’ spans more than a hundred...
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How the World Thinks
Julian Baggini
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a...
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India: A Short History
Andrew Robinson
Read more ▸ Order ▸India has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of...
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Turkey: A Short History
Norman Stone
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since...
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Flight
Zack Scott
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Flight’ is the story of humankind’s most ambitious undertaking. From thousand-year-old flying machines and the...
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A Brief History of Spain
Jeremy Black
Read more ▸ Order ▸Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and...
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The Kremlin Letters
David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov
Read more ▸ Order ▸A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II’s Grand Alliance through the messages...
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
Read more ▸ Order ▸In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him...
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The Penguin Book of Hell
Scott G. Bruce
Read more ▸ Order ▸Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient...
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Read more ▸ Order ▸When ‘The Silk Roads’ was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major...
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
This chronicle of the Apollo missions is a genuine epic. Exhaustive but never exhausting,...