“This is the room from which I will direct the war,” Churchill declared upon seeing the dank storage basement in an impr
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Few historical images are more powerful than those of wartime London. Having survived a constant barrage of German bombs
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Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, domestic tragedies, happy marriages
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The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection t
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The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Co
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"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward,
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Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by
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A rising politician amid war and dirty tricks -- The intellectual as protégé -- A soldier and a sailor -- Combating the
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