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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J....
Dan Snow
Nov 30, 2020An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers.Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the foundations of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence a...
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Nigel WarburtonA Tale of Two Cities
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of literary fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading...
Dan Snow
Nov 26, 2018Also recommended by
Maya Angelou100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
Dan Snow
Dec 30, 2016Also recommended by
Bill GatesHrithik RoshanAshton KutcherRichard BransonPewDiePieMark ZuckerbergJoe RoganKarlie KlossMelinda GatesHelen ZilleWhitney CummingsNaval RavikantJames CameronReid HoffmanVinod KhoslaBryan CallenMarcellus Wiley Derek SiversSimon MayoLex FridmanTrevor NcubeDemis HassabisDaniel EkPeter AttiaNir EyalMitch JoelGreg SiskindSebastian JungerAkshay MRyan SheaPulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, s...
Dan Snow
Nov 03, 2016