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THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020
'This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles ...
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire ...
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In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith tells the sweeping story of rivers and how they made us. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined borders ...
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and ...
he Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state ...
An exciting social history of Afghanistan told through art. From the complete coverage of chadaris to mini-skirts, and back again. From ancient carpet designs to ...
Britain's most passionate Francophile takes us on a wonderfully rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon ...
A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human.' Gripping and brilliantly told, We Hominids deftly blends personal experience with a journalist's eye for ...
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly ...
Stunningly illustrated biographies of the world's greatest cities, packed with paintings, photographs, maps, and artefactsFrom the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global ...
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the ...
