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This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the new security, political and social environment since 1994...

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An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through importa...

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Completely revised and expanded with 200 new entries, The Great American History Fact-Finder covers a wide spectrum of American history and culture...

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'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started o...

African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wre...

The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his thesis explained in the book, African-Am...

Dié nuwe, opgedateerde uitgawe van die 2007-topverkoper Nuwe geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika sluit bydraes in deur gerekende nuwe skrywers, wat die sto...

This newly updated and expanded edition of the top-selling New History of South Africa presents the story of this turbulent country in a fresh, rea...

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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Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in E...

Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazine In 2022 it ...

The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All Abou...

  THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.     The Great Kings of Persia ruled over th...

“The author builds on an impressive body of work that has spanned decades of research on the topic. This is now brought together in a seminal compe...

This book is a wonderful review of images which are intended to capture the changing face of Cape Town from 1850 to 1950. Selected from thousands, ...

Die Slag van Cuito Cuanavale is al dekades lank 'n bron van hewige konflik en emosie, maar tot nou toe was min bekend oor die Recces se teenwoordig...

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...

The last of the nine Frontier Wars, themselves a series of conflicts between the Xhosa Kingdom and European settlers fought between 1799-1877 in wh...

'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________In thi...

A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph – an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moments of a Jewish family in U...

How did the influence of Simon van der Stel impact on the spectacular fortunes of Olof Bergh? Was it possible that the spoils of buried treasure pl...

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? ...

Mills of Southern Africa by Chester O Staples introduces the reader to an aspect that is unknown to many people, namely mills. Mills are to be foun...

Nelson Mandela: By Himself is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time. This collection - gathered from privileg...

IN HIS OWN WORDS is a selection of Nelson Mandela's speeches, providing a lively, memorable profile of his lifelong commitment to freedom and recon...

As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa's apartheid regime, John Carlin ('one of the grea...

The human rights legacy of former Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed features in a biographical sketch titled Ismail Mahomed: Liberating the Law. A secon...

If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africa’s history would have been quite different....

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever....

**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. ...