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

Stonehouse

This is the definitive biography of John Stonehouse, Labour cabinet minister and Privy counsellor, spy for the Czech State Security (StB), and convicted fraudster. Stoneh...

More Noble Than War

By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football has never been shy

From Eton Manor to the Olympics : More Lea Valley Secrets Revealed

With a wealth of information regarding the Lea Valley's history, this guide provides a special emphasis on the regions past, and forthcoming 2012, Olympic connecti...

How To Win a Roman Chariot Race

Profesorul de limbi clasice de la Oxford, Jane Hood, propune o incursiune în istoria, cultura, literatura, mitologia și filozofia Greciei antice, Romei și Egiptului. Hoo...

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

A Brief History of The British Army

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken

Three Days at the Brink : Young Readers' Edition

This young readers' edition from New York Times bestselling author and Fox News anchor Bret Baier dives into the first of the secret World War

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

Facts, Legends & Mysteries: Pyramids of Giza

Piramidele din Giza sunt singura din cele Șapte Minuni ale Lumii care a rezistat tipului. Sfidând secolele, aceste monumente funerare gigantice construite cu mai mult

Deepfakes

Everything you need to know about 'deep fake' image manipulation and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a

Reader's Digest and The Royals : A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family

The Reader’s Digest Magazine has a long and close association with the Royal Family. This book, reproduced from the magazine archives, features the best of

Telling Tales

Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for the popular biographies of her extraordinary relatives, including Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother) and sculptor Clare Sheridan, ...

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation

Lusitania : The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including

Conservatism

Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the

Great Britain : Let's Get Quizzical

A fun collection of puzzles, quiz questions, mazes, spot-the-differences, and more, all with a British theme Get ready for a brain-teasing trip through the best

The Emperor's Shadow

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years

Love and Deception

Love and Deception is the extraordinary story of Eleanor, an able, cultured American woman living in the espionage hot spot of 1950s Beirut and -

Warrior and the Prophet

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky shooting

India - British-Indian campaigns in Britain for Indian reforms, justice & freedom

Nicio istorie ce abordeaza mișcarea de eliberare a Indiei nu poate fi completă fără a consemna contribuțiile mai multor britanici eminenți care au susținut cauza

Trump Talking

'Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich' But that's just part of it. His fingers, too, are 'long and beautiful'. Improbably

Tommies The British Army in the Trenches

British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the name is particularly associated with the British soldier in World War I. In 1914,

365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be British

365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be British is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and

Critical Times

Critical Times is the brilliant new collection of acerbic sketches of contemporary political life by The Times's master of satire, Peter Brookes. Brookes, multiple winn...

Unbelievers

Unbelievers looks back to the middle ages when it seemed impossible not to subscribe to Christianity, through the crisis of the Reformation and to the

Cox's Fragmenta II: Further Folios from History

A presumptuous bear who surprised a group of ladies in a coach, an accident involving an actor pretending to be an orangutan, and an aristocrat

The Encyclopedia of Mass Murderers

This is a remarkable, revelatory exploration of the world's most extreme cases of mass murder by two of the UK's most respected true-crime experts. From

To Win A War, 1918 The Year of Victory

Această carte spune povestea modului în care, după toate eșecurile din anii precedenți, în 1918 armata britanică a învins definitiv armata germană. Această carte conving...

The Power of Judges

The role of the Supreme Court has often been considered out of reach and incomprehensible to the vast majority of the public, while judges might

The Stuarts in 100 Facts

The Stuart era encompasses the whole of the seventeenth century and beyond, with seven monarchs and a civil war that changed Britain forever. It was

Way We Were: the British at Home

Teasmades and TV dinners, queuing and commuting, strikes and street parties, lino and lawnmowers - the last century was a fertile time in the development

August 1914 : France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought

Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

The Revolutionary War as never told before. This breathtaking installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the...

The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

Deși epoca victoriană a fost o perioadă de transformare fără precedent, adesea ea este înțeleasă numai prin stereotipuri: fabrici aglomerate, munca copiilor și reprimare...

GANGS

Gangs have been a way of life for decades, and while the culture may be different today, living on the edge of society is still

Three Days in January : Young Readers' Edition

'In January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the torch to newly elected John F. Kennedy. Even though both men were great leaders, they couldn't

Standing Alone

As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle

These Islands : A Letter To Britain

Visiting Italy in the months preceding the Scottish referendum of 2014, Ali Ansari was struck by the admiration of Italian colleagues for the liberalism of

Drawing the Line: The Irish Border in British Politics

Although it is approaching a century in existence, the Irish border is currently one of the most topical issues in British politics. For most of

Empires Apart

The American road to Baghdad started when the first English settlers landed in Virgina determined to impose their values on everyone they encountered. Simultaneously, th...

From the Western Front to Salonika

Editorul cărții, Catherine Labaume-Howard, a găsit 300 de scrisori ale bunicului său într-un sac vechi de cartofi, în momentul vânzării casei familiei. Autorul scrisoril...

A Night at the Majestic

On a night in May 1922, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper: Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso,

Murrow's Cold War

In March 1961 America’s most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quarter-century career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of Jo...

Justice at Guantanamo

Huskey was one of the first female lawyers to represent detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp-including those in two cases that yielded a landmark

Tumult and Tears

During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women's

Tribes

Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy investigates the modern concept of 'tribes' and how New Tribalism has pernicious effects on the health of our society.

WW1 at Sea

In 1914 at the beginning of the war, Britain's maritime supremacy had remained unchallenged for around a hundred years. Many expected another Battle of Trafalgar

30-Second Evolution

'Adapt or die' este legea care guvernează natura, iar cine nu s-a adaptat de-a lungul secolelor, a fost lăsat în urmă. Dar cum are loc,

Royal Prayer

Why did Bonnie Prince Charlie turn down the throne of America? How were Napoleon and Wellington related? Was the Tay Bridge disaster the result of

30-Second Politics

Ai putea fi OK cu lucruri standard cum ar fi conservativismul și democrația, dar știi cu adevarat ce este patrimonialismul? Sau oligarhia? Anarho-sindicalismul? Politi...

Wild East

The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of heavily

From Anger to Apathy

In 1975, a Labor government with a wafer-thin majority was struggling in vain against rampant inflation. Trade union officials seemed more powerful than the politicians

Value

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A radical book that speaks out accessibly' BONO 'Indispensable ... This is the essential handbook' CHRISTINE LAGARDE 'A remarkably good read'...

An illustrated introduction to the Somme 1916

The Battle of the Somme epitomised the cruelty of the Western Front. 1 July 1916 witnessed the opening round of the British Army's attempt to

Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick

„Walls - A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick” de David Frye, este o scriere atât de pasionantă și revoluționară încât va schimba profund

30-Second Twentieth Century

Probabil știți sau credeți că știți destul de multe despre ceea ce s-a întâmplat în secolul al XX-lea - este posibil ca, dacă citiți acest

When the Clouds Fell from the Sky

A man returns home to Cambodia whose people, unseen by the outside world and unknown to him, are dying in vast numbers in one of

9-11: Was There an Alternative?

„9-11”este o colecție de eseuri și interviuri cu Noam Chomsky publicate pentru prima dată în noiembrie 2001, în urma atacurilor teroriste asupra World Trade Center.

Hijo Americano

Pocos políticos han alcanzado una preeminencia a nivel nacional tan rápidamente como Marco Rubio. Esta es la historia de su ascenso inesperado. Una vez que

Fight the Good Fight

People interpreted this faith in many different ways. Soldiers marched off to war with ringing endorsements from bishops that they were fighting a Godly crusade,