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Nicholas Rankin • Ian Fleming's Commandos
myth of the white man’s burden from the days of the British Empire,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The religious nature of the Uprising was becoming immediately apparent. British men and women who had converted to Islam were invariably spared, yet all Indian converts to Christianity—Hindu or Muslim—were sought out and hunted down.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Besides the intolerable destruction of ships, there was also a terrible human cost-50,000 Allied seamen died during the war.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
nothing more than what some historians have called “a tissue of exaggerations, misconceptions and outright lies.”
Peter Frankopan • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Signs of life in the towns, villas and forts of late Roman Britain are increasingly visible to archaeologists, despite a paucity of convincingly dated material. But describing the lives of the bulk of fifth-century Britons is by no means straightforward; and the picture is complicated by the arrival, in the second quarter of that most obscure centu
... See moreMax Adams • The First Kingdom
to a benign commander like Lancaster it was the loss of 182 men, two-fifths of his entire following, that rankled.