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A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. …
An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year "Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus."--Tom Holland, The Telegraph "Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's …
Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps …
In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from …
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year "Powerful and radically important."--Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement "Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has …
A New Statesman Book of the Year "Time's Monster is not a conventional history...The conclusion Satia] arrives at ultimately is that it was the discipline of History itself, ever …
"Here at last is a genuinely readable, genuinely responsive history of the Arabs."--Edward W. Said, Los Angeles Times Book Review Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's …
"How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie's alternative, in which emotions are …