You';; find out about the rise and fall of the great Roman leader, from powerful dictator to salad dressing. Was he a hero, a zero or a pain in the rear-o like nero.
Explore the key moments in the middle east's history; Understand the development of the lasting conflict; Discover the issues behind the headlines.
Scholars have long studied clasical Sanskrit culture in almost total isolation from its courtly context. As the first book-length study to focus exclusively on the royal court as a social and cultu…
The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers; that of the Chinese; and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abandon the city and created a safe…
The First World War is a compelling introduction to a conflict on a scale never experienced in the world before. When war broke out in 1914 some predicted that it would be 'over by Christmas', yet …