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1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain’s Opium trade. Britain and China go to war. When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they o…

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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.

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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.

Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something ha…

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Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World

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An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history.

The Norman Conquest starts with the most decisive battle in English history and continues with dramatic rebellions and the…

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There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth…

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The Fall of Berlin 1945

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most…

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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.

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From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set on Rome's Danubian frontier.

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A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thriller from the “Master of British SF”

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Two months since the stars fell...

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Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army

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From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age

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This book is the first full-scale history of Carthage in decades. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In…

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