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Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"
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When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in...
Across the world the last Nazi trials are winding their way through the courts. Nearly a century on from the Holocaust, survivors...
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three...
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao...
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death.
Mao Zedong threw his country into a...
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of...
A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world
The seventeenth...
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different...
Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd...
As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a...
A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing...
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic...
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas...
The famous D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe....
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory...
One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the...
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial...
In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of...
19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict...
Eric Vuillard's gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European...
The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from...
From the internationally bestselling author of Four Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and...
The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II.
In 1941, a...
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a...
In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth...
The history of the world is the history of great women.
Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science....
In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work -...
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare’s life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old...
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence...
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