History

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer all human activity lies within the artists scope the History of Man Series uses medicine as a jumping off point to explore precisely that all history all science all human activity since the beginning of time The jumping off style of writing takes the reader the listener into…

A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history and a positive vision of what the future can holdif we act now From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day water has always been central to existence on Earth And since long…

Marcus Garveys The Tragedy of White Injustice is a powerful indictment of white racism and colonialismGarvey argues that the white race has a long history of oppressing and exploiting nonwhite people all over the world and that white racism is not simply a matter of individual prejudice but rather a deeply ingrained system of oppression…

Edited and introduced by MSNBCs Ali Velshi The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County GA and Manhattan NY district attorneysa riveting and shocking narrative of the former presidents alleged crimes and conspiracies

Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius Jools Holland So funny bristling with glamorous but eccentric characters Jilly Cooper Very funny and touching gentle wise and unpretentious This is a book I absolutely loved Anne Glenconner entertaining and at times poignant The Sunday Telegraph An endearing wellpaced read Country Life…

Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town Benjamin Moser found himself visitingcasually at first and then more and more obsessivelythe countrys great museums Beyond the sainted Rembrandtwho harbored a startling darknessand the mysterious Vermeer whose true subject it turned out was lurking in plain sight Moser got to know a whole galaxy…

The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences werent so deadly and tragic In 1951 while war was raging in Korea the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism As the Korean War was…

How much do you know about the Vikings You might be surprised by how much you already know and by how much of it isnt even true

It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman but it was also not an empire in the sense people expect when hearing the term In theory the emperor was the highest prince in Christendom and his dominion extended the length and breadth of Western Europe The empire…

A splendid exciting book Daily MirrorThe story of the first allout struggle in Asia between Communism and the West vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book Sunday Express Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation war came again to Malaya The Chinesebacked guerrillas called it the War of the Running…