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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 new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
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The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
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A brief and thrilling introduction to Japan from one of the country's leading British historians
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A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of one of the most infamous events in history- the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context from antiquity to today
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An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.
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'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'
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Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look ...
The incredible story of China's greatest archaeological treasure - the Terracotta Army - revised and updated for 2018.
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest ...
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 ...
