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Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.

In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power....

In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits....

The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

Acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer the definitive new history of East Germany—from the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall....

Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine....