Learn about the incredible stories of the past and impress your friends with some new history and transport facts with our collection of transport and history eBooks.
The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Midnight in Chernobyl...
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What is Art?
Leon Tolstoy
WHAT thoughtful man has not been perplexed by problems relating to art?An estimable and charming Russian lady I knew, felt the charm of the music and ritual of the services of the Russo-Greek Church...
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Twelve Years a Slave
Northup Solomon Northup
Born into "the blessings of liberty in a free State," Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Bayou Boeuf region of Louisiana's Red River Valley.
Twelve Years a Slave is the...
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Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land
Rachel Cockerell
'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it's a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.' -...
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Pox Romana
Colin Elliott
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle
In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and...
