The definitive book on this important battle of the Wars of the Roses For many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a ‘short scuffle...

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land,...

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This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Wester...

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From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its ...

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Though it has been some six centuries since explorer Zheng He visited Africa, scholar Li Xinfeng finds connections between Zheng's voyages and Chin...

Die verhaal van die 1820-Setlaars – Britse emigrante na die onstuimige grens van ‘n afgelee kolonie in die 19de-eeuse Suider-Afrika. Hulle invloed ...

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From 1913 to 1920, the Molteno-Murray family published a private journal called "Chronicle of the Family". It appeared three times a year, providin...

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been des...

Challenging Western depictions, this consideration of Moscow’s post-Cold War Africa policy takes into account both African and Russian decisionmake...

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'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is at rock bottom in Eas...

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 ...

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...

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An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from t...

For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for thousands of years before that, Britain had bee...

Manners, order and respect... these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposed positions, we ought to be able to 'agree to disagree'. Today's world...

In some settings, such as Ireland, contiguous Catholic and Protestant states are often not conducive to good relations or neighbourliness. In colon...

WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...

THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR ...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining th...

In April 1965, Che Guevara set out clandestinely from Havana to Congo to head a force of some 150 veteran Cuban soldiers to assist the Congolese Pa...

Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...

'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows how central Winston and Randolph were to ea...

In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through mi...

Chris Schoeman neem nog Suid-Afrikaanse rampe oor die eeu heen opnuut onder die loep, maar sluit dié keer ’n heel paar minder bekende voorvalle in ...

Dit is ’n sensitiewe, getroue, amusante vertelling oor die unieke ervarings van ’n Vrystaatse boeregesin tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Van die s...

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What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi...

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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...