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Heelwat is al oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899–1902) geskryf. Tog is daar slegs enkele publikasies wat handel oor die tema van die kuns wat deur Boe...

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Discover the enthralling story of how we took to the skies, in this journey through over 100 years of airborne innovation and adventure. From the W...

An evolutionary saga, The Last Rhodesians is the definitive insight on this culture’s origins, identity and imprint in Africa. Then 16 years of war...

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectua...

Not everybody is aware that the ships that rounded our coast over the past five centuries are as closely linked to the history of South Africa as g...

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both h...

Four amazing chapters in The History Book: History Revealed goes back in time to uncover a host of extreme events, ideas and people. In Unearth His...

A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of ma...

'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw...

During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking every...

In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short Hist...

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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in...

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours...

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours...

You know about MI5. You know about MI6. Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever auth...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voic...

AN ATTEMPT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA, IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR'S 14-YEAR-OLD SONA bold and beautifully written explora...

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in on...

*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government o...