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The Battle of Verdun, that took place in early 1916 was one of the most horrific clashes of World War One - well over 700,000 men were kil...

For a few brief years following the 1979 incident at the Three Mile Island plant, it was known as the world's worst nuclear accident. Th...

"I was a 22 year old docker, I'd been working in the docks for two years. And I turned up at the World's End massive building...

If there is one conclusion that can be drawn from Richard Gott's extensive analysis of the resistance to the British Empire, it is that ...

Rather like his later novel American Gods , Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere deals with the seedier underbelly of modern society. Fantastic par...

Rosa Luxemburg's short book Reform or Revolution is often overlooked these days, in favour of her more famous, Mass Strike . Written wh...

John Molyneux's short book on Anarchism that I reviewed recently is an excellent and fraternal critique of the main threads of Anarchist...

This book is a detailed demolition job. Edwin Black explores in great detail, with solid evidence what IBM, one of the largest, wealthiest a...

Described in the introduction as the "game changing crime novel of the last fifty years" it is difficult to understand the hype th...

I used to think that the trilobite was merely one of those instantly recognisable fossils, sort of like an elongated and flattened woodlouse...

I read the "author's preferred text". I will start this review by making a very clear statement about the book under scru...

Volume three of Philip José Farmer 's Riverworld series is one of those novels were you wonder if the series is about to "jump the ...

The northern-most frontier of the Roman Empire, marked out by the Antonine Wall is often overlooked by its more impressive southern cousin b...

Gitta Sereny's detailed and scholarly examination of one of the key figures in Hitler's leadership is also extremely readable and ...

In this challenging book "string theorist" Brian Greene has attempted to being together the most recent understanding of this comp...

This is a beautifully written book about the terrible legacy of European exploration of the Pacific. Alan Moorehead's classic study of...