Learn how a would be preacher made a monkey of everyone. How evolution caused a revolution and his missing links created stinks.
Saints alive! This is the story from entree to entrecote of the French maid who ended up as French toast. Was she on a mission from God or just the Witch Teen of new Orleans.
Learn all about the revolutionary emperor whose grande armee was tucked firmly inside his petite tunic.Find out how Wellington gave him the boot and the French him the Elba
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 …