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At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.

This volume chronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564.

Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church.

From the accession of the thrillingly unappealing James VI & I to his hapless heir, Charles I, to the ruthless Oliver Cromwell, Peter Ackroyd tells the story of the turbulent seventeenth centur

In this volume, Will and Ariel Durant explore Europe's bumpy road toward the Enlightenment.

Young Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Nazis, but then came the day he was shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his own Je

Tells the story of Edward VIII and his wife, Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop embroiled the duke in a German plot to use him as a puppet king.

Assassination by drone is a subject of enduring fascination, yet few understand why it has become our principal way of waging war.

This volume chronicles the history of European civilization from 1648 to 1715.

Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his History of England series, charting the course of English history f

From the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, this spellbinding history of turbulent US-China relations from the nineteenth century to World War II and Mao's ascent explores a difficult cent

This volume presents an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century.

This volume centers on the passionate rebel--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex.

This volume surveys the chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy.