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Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning ...
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times
'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan
A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
How did the People's Republic ...
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and ...
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the ...
A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia India, Pakistan, Bangladesh ...
An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.
'A rollercoaster of historical narration' History Today
'This is a ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
"Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes ...
A deeply consideredreappraisal of Pakistanipolitics as a permanentstate of struggle andcontention betweenactors, mindsets andinterests.
This book is a major reinterpretation of Pakistani politics. Its focus ...
A brief and thrilling introduction to Japan from one of the country's leading British historians
In this enormously enjoyable introduction to a remarkable country ...
Afghanistan, at the meeting place of the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Central Asia, holds a key place in the spread of ancient civilizations. Its ...
In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan, and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan's most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far ...
