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The narrow strip of land now occupied by the modern state of Israel is where all paths from Europ...

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serv...

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In 48 BC, the stage was set for the final clash of the two titans of the Roman world and the odds...

When Paris, prince of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, it launched the great...

A highly illustrated and detailed study of one of the most important campaigns in the colonizatio...

In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusa...

A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that ...