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The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol

"Fascism" is a word ubiquitous in our contemporary political discourse, but few know about its roots...

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Targeted Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War On Terror

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that chang...

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Questions (Brief Books About Big Ideas)

A short but engaging look at how questions shape our thinking.Why do we ask questions? In Questions,...

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Civil Wars: A Very Short Introduction

Civil wars are nasty, brutish, and long. Monica Duffy Toft introduces this complex and timely topic....

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The Turkish War of Independence: A Military History, 1919–1923

The dramatic story of the turbulent birth of modern Turkey, which rose out of the ashes of the Ottom...

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Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War

The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war f...

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Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945

'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill hims...

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Why I Became an X Troop Commando: A Life of Colin Anson, the German who Fought for Churchill

A fascinating and moving biography of Colin Anson, the German refugee who became an elite British co...

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How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now

A sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throug...

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Disruption: Why Things Change

How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a p...

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The Politics of Utopia: A New History of John Law's System, 1695–1795

A fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France. Th...

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The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities

To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman...

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The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires not...

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Stone Circles: A Field Guide

The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland From Stonehenge and the Ring of Bro...

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Ancient Egypt: Everything You Wanted to Know But Forgot to Ask (Brief Histories)

Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history....

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