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Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"
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Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim...
A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East.
In...
An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky's "40 Thieves" were chosen for their willingness to defy...
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution...
As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the...
Why Is the Middle East Entering a “New Era?” Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun?
In the third decade of the twenty-first...
In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple,...
Nine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite...
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking...
Telling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins up to the present day, Berlin is a fascinating and...
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the...
From John Nichol, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spitfire, comes a passionate and profoundly moving tribute to the...
Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of...
The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened to the redoubtable fighter and...
D-Day before dawn. Minute by minute, hour by hour the danger grows...
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small...
Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic tale...
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the...
Indianapolis is the thrilling true story of the greatest naval disaster in United States history – the sinking of the U.S.S....
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be...
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century...
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman...
The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket...
The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live...
In 1724, Captain Charles Johnson published A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. In it,...
Napoleon Bonaparte's ascent to power was meteoric. Ever the outsider and regarded by many as an upstart, his extraordinary...
Both a religious order and a private army, the Templars were answerable only to the Pope and dominated the politics of the Middle...
I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full...
Despite a long and noble ancestry stretching back to 1500BC, Freemasonry has enjoyed mixed fortunes in recent times. Banned in...
Henry VIII is Britain's most notorious monarch, remembered for his six wives and splitting the church in two for the sake of...
Traversing snowy mountain passes, vast, forbidding deserts, and stormy seas, the Silk Roads were about much more than the...
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