Constructing Bangladesh

Peace in the Making

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

My Thoughts Be Bloody

My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s

Everything in Moderation

'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane, intelligent and witty. He

Showmen, Socialites and the Savoy

In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal

The Hacienda : A Memoir

De la un autor britanic premiat vine o carte de memorii luxuriantă și captivantă - un Out of Africa plasat în Anzii venezueleni. Cu o

GREAT HARRY'S NAVY

WATERLOO: THE BATTLE THAT BROUGHT DOWN NAPOLEON

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The battle on

Theresa May

Only the second woman to hold office at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May inherits the most difficult political mandate of recent times: to negotiate Britain’s

Arena of Ambition

Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in

Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Povestea captivantă din interiorul alegerilor prezidențiale din 2008, scrisă de doi dintre cei mai buni reporteri politici din țară. 'Este una dintre cele mai bune

Unmanned

Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new

Kitchener

The words 'Britons Wants You' and 'Your Country Needs You' are echoes from the First World War - a time very different from today but

The Art of Resistance

An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from

A New Birth of Freedom

The book presents a powerful case for reviewing and renewing the basis of our most important human rights.

A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt

Few victories have been so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V against Charles VI's army at Agincourt on

ZERO SIX BRAVO

bestsellerul nr. 1 din Sunday Times. Aceasta este povestea adevărată și nespusă a celei mai disperate bătălii purtate de forțele speciale britanice și aliate prinse

My Friend the Mercenary

He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of

Fandango at the Wall

It's a history that has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies. But the US-Mexican relationship has also been beset

Two Old French Satires on the power of the Keys

These thirteenth-century French comic texts, L'Escommeniement au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre, are two of the earliest satires on the Church's power to 'loosen

Zero Night

A remarkable story told in full for the first time: a rip-roaring adventure story of WWII derring-do, all the more thrilling for being true. Oflag

Establishment and Meritocracy

Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to

Reporting on Hitler : Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Berlin by Will Wainewright

Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Fuhrer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily

Return

'After growing up in Britain following exile from Palestine in 1948, Karmi returns to her homeland in the hope of helping with the peace process

To Fight Alongside Friends : The First World War Diary of Charlie May

The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A

Charlie Company Journeys Home

Using countless interviews as well as original diaries and letters, Andrew Wiest lays bare the horror of the Vietnam War for those left behind and

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the final volume in her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and inspiring true story of the women

Dole Queues and Demons

A unique blend of graphic design, bold art or photography and cunning psychology, election posters are an unsung art form, stretching back to the dawn

Women warriors for Allah

Dutch investigative journalists Janny Groen and Annieke Kranenberg offer an indispensable corrective to the conventional view that Muslim women in jihad are either pacifi...

Doorway to Hell: Disaster in Somalia

Spring, 1993: Most of Somalia outside of Mogadishu was secured. Then something went wrong... It started as a mission of mercy-to feed the hungry, cure

Scotland Vs England

For 300 years, Scotland and England have stood together, united in glorious kinship. This text is full of angry jibes and gentle jokes between the

Don Vito and the Mafia: Living with My Father's Secrets

Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone - spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don

East-West Divan

This collection of scholarly essays on Egyptian culture, history, society, archeology, literature, art, and conservation is published in memory of Werner Mark Linz, who s...

An American Body-politic

A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history

A History of the Rod

This famous book was first published in 1865, at the apogée of the Victorian era. Its full title—‘A History of the Rod in All Countries,

Shadow State

Every year the British government spends GBP80 billion outsourcing public services. Today, private companies are responsible for fulfilling some of the most sensitive an...

A Republic in Time

Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America

Angels of mercy

William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation's first orphanage for African American

Lost Bodies

History--and the bodies of the most famous--truly move in mysterious ways. Along with short biographies of their lives, Lost Bodies explores the controversies surroundin...

Discourse By Three Drunkards On Government

A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an

The Roman Empire in 100 Haikus

The Roman Empire has been a source of fascination to political thinkers, the obsession of some of the greatest historians, and has influenced art down

Fighting monsters

Against the backdrop of the British-American law- and war-making of the first decade of the millennium, Fighting Monsters considers how the way we think about

Code Name Caesar

In the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway . . .

From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism

During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the

Courage

Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb is a compelling and highly original study of the paradox of courage. Richard Avramenko contends that courage is

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russia Revolution

A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today. In

Imagining Postcommunism

Although the 1956 Hungarian uprising failed to liberate the country from Soviet domination, it became a symbol of freedom for people throughout Eastern Europe and

The Story of the British and Their Weather : From Frost Fairs to Indian Summers

The British weather: famously changeable, subject of endless complaint and endless small talk. We all feel we know it well as a largely benign backdrop

Partner to power

A former congressional staffer and Capitol Hill veteran recounts the colorful history of presidential advisers, showing how influential these unelected appointees have ...

How to Start a Revolution

HOW TO START A REVOLUTION is an examination of fourth wave feminism and political youth culture. It is also a much-needed reminder that government by

Nazism, The Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews

Women at the Siege, Peking 1900

On 20 June 1900, Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister, was assassinated in a Peking street. By 4pm the first shots were fired into the

Street Fighting Years

In 'Street Fighting Years' Tariq Ali surveys the political upheaval and change of the 1960s, taking in Vietnam, the death of Che Guevara, and the

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

# 1 NOW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nu trebuia să fie niciodată atât de mică diferența. Și bineînțeles că trebuia să câștige. Modul în care Hillary

Four Years on the Western Front

Originally published under a pseudonym in 1922, this memoir of a private soldier in the London Rifle Brigade is closely based on the letters he

I Am the Border, So I Am

‘I was living the quiet life, watching the traffic and the sheep go by and then Brexit came along and I listened to people dismissing

The Hidden Lives of London Streets

London's streets have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who live and work on them. Take a walk down any number

Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for

Gangsters

Putin: A Man's Manual of Manliness

A hilarious spoof gift activity book featuring everyone's favorite Russian premier, packed with amusing stories, games, and inspirational quotes from the man himself. ...

Mad Men & Bad Men

What happened when a rag-tag band of scruffs and smart-arses invaded Westminster, sprinkling creative fairy dust over earnest politicians? How much did snappy slogans a...