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From Playing Cards to Gaming Legends: Nintendo's Epic Rise"The History of Nintendo" transports readers through a century of ingenuity and grit, evoking the nostalgia of pixelated …

Written in response to the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia’s cultural heritage and a …

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of …

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, the first global history of the world's first world war. Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are …

Called "everything a war memoir could possibly be" by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and …

â??A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Timesâ??Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the warâ?? Sir Winston Churchill, …

'This is not only history reclaimed, this is history at its best!' Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Persians: the Age of the Great Kings'A bravura re-telling' Daily …

â??If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful correctiveâ?? Scotsman2018 marks the centenary …

The ultimate quizzing companion for all trivia fans. Whether you’re playing solo, putting your partner’s brain to the test, or competing with friends and family, the possibilities …

The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the …