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The Lion and the Dragon
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between…
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The Lion and the Dragon
'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for…
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Churchill and Empire
One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing…
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Empires in the Sun
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years,…