Regime Unchanged

Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit

As David Cameron's director of Politics and communications, Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum - the biggest

Brief History: The Dynasties of China

By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation. His unique bird's-eye

Deception : Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the

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

Hannibal

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays, three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became thi...

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

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

Modern Women

Modern Women este o celebrare a unora dintre femeile influente și impresionante care au schimbat lumea prin viața, prin munca și prin acțiunile lor. De

Lucifer Rising British Intelligence and the Occult in the Second World War

Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so the British secret services turn to figures from the occult

A Brief History of Slavery

În 'A Brief History of Slavery' istoricul Jeremy Black explorează sclavia de la originile sale și până la manifestările sale contemporane, sub forma traficului de

Islamism

A political, social, and cultural battle is boiling over in the Middle East at the moment. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe

To War With Wellington: From The Peninsula To Waterloo

Using first-hand accounts written by generals, cavalrymen and foot-soldiers of the Duke of Wellington's army, Peter Snow conjures up the horror of the early 19th

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

A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman

The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere 'pup' among

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

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

Holocaust Child : Lalechka

A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of

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

Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952

Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952 presents new and often dismissed aspects of the constitutional monarchy era in Egyptian history. It demonstrates that many of the domesti...

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

Evil Families

Throughout history, you see examples where criminality seems to run in the family. From the Ptolemaic dynasty that terrorized Greek Egypt to the modern mafia,

The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World

When the ship of dreams sank, so did the Edwardian era. In this original and meticulously-researched narrative history, Gareth Russell considers the real story of

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...

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...

1963: That Was the Year That Was

A compendium of the year's milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture and politics. This year alone saw The Beatles' first No 1, Martin

COMANDANTE: HUGO CHAVE'S VENEZUELA

The inside story of Hugo Chavez’s rule and complex legacy Few leaders in our time have been as divisive and enigmatic as the late Hugo

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...

CITY OF SIN: LONDON

For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. In this text, Catharine Arnold turns

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

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 . . .

Women in Aviation

Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart may be the most famous trailblazing women within the world of early aviation, but there were many others. From the

How Australia Became British: Empire and the China Trade

Australia's tale of discovery, colonization and eventual settlement by the British is fraught with conflict. Wilson's discovery of the Eastern Passage, in 1759, was the

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

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifity years after his death he is one of the most iconic figures in British history: as a young man

Ian Fleming's Commandos

În 1942, locotenent-comandantul Ian Fleming era asistent personal al directorului de informații navale - figura dinamică din spatele lui „M”,șeful fictiv al lui James Bo...

Exploiting Africa

'The purpose of this book is to provide an historical examination of China's activities in Africa, an important yet overlooked aspect of the broader subject

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this

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

Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

This catalog describes 24 manuscripts from the Collection of Thomas Ryburn Buchanan presented to the Bodleian in 1939 and 1941. The collection consists primarily of

Dateline

“Oft times one day is better than sometimes a whole year.” William Caxton (1422–1491) Each day of the year commemorates the anniversaries of famous birthdays,

1916: A Global History

A fascinating examination of the First World War beyond the Western Front told through the significant global events of 1916, which dramatically altered the fate

All the president's men

'The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history' (Time)--from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, #1 New York Times

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

Dynastic Rule: Mikhail Piotrovsky and the Hermitage

The Hermitage, one of the world-renowned Russian State Museums in St. Petersburg, was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has ever since been

Ghosts of Langley

During his first visit to Langley, the CIA’s Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, “I am so behind you . . . there’s

Rough and Tumble

Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the

House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty

The Tudor court was a snake pit of competing factions, and none was more Machiavellian than the Howard family. After John, first Duke of Norfolk,

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

The Rise of the Outsiders

Something strange has been happening. All over the world, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls

The Dictator's Learning Curve

We are witnessing an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—waves of protests are sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots have fallen in

France: A History From Gaul To De Gaulle

'This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history,' begins John Julius Norwich.

The Chaplin Machine Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde

Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? haplin

Who goes home?

'Who Goes Home? A Parliamentary Miscellany is a wonderful and authoritative collection of Parliamentary wit and insult
of bizarre and hilarious stories
of odd and

Classic Stories of World War I

Published to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of The Great War, Classic Stories of World War I is a compilation of fiction and

Anatomy of a Traitor

What makes someone betray their country, their friends, everything they have been brought up to value? This book will focus on the critical moment in