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In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading...

Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) was created in 1987, won the elections of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006, and governed the Gaz...

This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians c...

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the...

An extraordinary portrait of life at the heart of Heinrich Himmler's court at the heart of the Nazi Regime. In 1938, before the outbreak of the Sec...

The Gathering Bag brings together ten traditional narratives originally told in the ancient !xun language, passed on by word of mouth for generatio...

An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle At the age of twenty-thre...

Rome may have fallen in the late fifth century CE, but more than 1,500 years later its mark on Europe and around the Mediterranean is still evident...

A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year‘Robert Darnton is one of the world’s greatest historians, and this is an ...

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An acclaimed international bestseller which tells the story of Europe’s most admired and feared country, from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von B...

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An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abo...

Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponizedDuring the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and resident...

All or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire and Fury series. With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, it follows every turn of Donald T...

The Case for a Second Republic: South Africa’s Second Chance is a timely intervention that navigates South Africa’s transition as a republic over t...

In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance...

The thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...

Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look ...

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On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeane...