An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin’s failures and whether Trump’s election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.
“A master chronicler of...
A leading historian draws guides us through the inner workings of Soviet power.
The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant—perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible...
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan EPUB
The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.
The Roman...
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has...
In the Middle Ages much like today, the vagina conjured fear and repulsion, yet it held an undeniable allure. In The Medieval Vagina, the authors explore this paradox while unearthing medieval myths, attitudes and contradictions surrounding this...
Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the...
HITLER CALLED IT THE "ZONE OF DESTINY" AND HE'D RISK HIS ENTIRE NAVY TO SMASH THROUGH IT.
X-Day, February 11,1942. In the pre-dawn darkness a massive fleet of German battleships, destroyers and escort ships steamed out of France for the...
Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; and the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one,...