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Long Walk to Freedom

"A Long Walk to Freedom" is the memoir of Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress and the first black president of South ...

All the President's Men - The most devastating political detective story of the 20th century

The inside story of the Watergate scandal -- the most devastating political detective story of the twentieth century.

The Light that Failed - A Reckoning

*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize* FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK A landmark book ...

Shake Hands with the Devil - The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Rom¿Dallaire joined the Canadian Army in 1964. A three star General, he served as Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army and later in the ...

Hard Choices - A Memoir

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67TH SECRETARY...

Listening to the Animals: Becoming The Supervet

An uplifting memoir in which vet surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick looks back on his journey, eventually becoming star of "The Supervet"...

The Cold War - A World History

For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Thi...

The Devil's Chessboard - Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

Now in paperback, this is a biography of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA, who manipulated presidents, protect...

War

From the author of "The Perfect Storm", this tells the story of Junger's almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army, k...

Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2...

Zero Zero Zero

Roberto Saviano is an Italian journalist and the author of several books including Zero Zero Zero and the international bestseller Gomorr...

The Cultural Revolution - A People's History, 1962--1976

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnso...

Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, a...

Selling Hitler - The Story of the Hitler Diaries

Subtitled, "The Story Of The Hitler Diaries". The second reissuing of the bestseller, in new format and new cover. An account of the fake...

Directorate S - The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. His major books include Private Empire, The Bin Ladens an...

Imperial Life in the Emerald City - Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist)

A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times Bestseller The Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming...

Black Like Me. 50th Anniversary Edition

THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH "One of the deepest, most penetrating documents ye...

Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present

In this new book, the author of "Cosa Nostra" and "Mafia Brotherhoods" shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more a...

The Black Banners (Declassified) - How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11

Widely heralded on publication as a "must-read" (Military Review) and "important window on America's battle with al-Qaeda" (Washington Po...

Roller-Coaster - Europe, 1950-2017

Sir Ian Kershaw is one of the UK's most distinguished historians. His most famous books include Hitler, Fateful Choices and The End. The ...

Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way into Hollywood

*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans...

Prague Winter - A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-t...

Betrayal in Berlin - George Blake, the Berlin Tunnel and the Greatest Conspiracy of the Cold War

Magnificent story-telling, meticulously researched. A fascinating commentary on the height of the Cold War' Peter Snow The astonishing tr...

Natives - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Race and class have shaped MOBO-award winning musician Akala's life across a series of experiences contextualised here in relation to the...

Mrs Slocombe's Pussy

Amerika, Deutschland und Europa von 1917 bis heute - Band 1 - Festschrift zum 90. Geburtstag von Klaus Schwabe

Amerika, Deutschland und Europa - dieser Dreiklang steht seit mehr als sechzig Jahren im Zentrum des wissenschaftlichen Werkes von Klaus ...

Amerika, Deutschland und Europa von 1917 bis heute - Band 2 - Festschrift zum 90. Geburtstag von Klaus Schwabe

Amerika, Deutschland und Europa - dieser Dreiklang steht seit mehr als sechzig Jahren im Zentrum des wissenschaftlichen Werkes von Klaus ...

The Stasi Poetry Circle - The Creative Writing Class the Tried to Win the Cold War

Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s until Today

One of the oldest phenomena in the history of mankind is migration, whether peaceful or violent, voluntary or forced, barely noticeable o...

Italian Life - A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The Times How does Italy really w...

Postwar Amateur Film Practices in a Transnational Perspective

Amateur film and amateur media practices have attracted increasing interest in recent decades in the context of the "visual turn". Questi...

The Long War - The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11

Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade con...

Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't s...

B-36 'Peacemaker' Units of the Cold War

A fully illustrated study into the extraordinary Convair B-36 during the Cold War. Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain...

Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries Second Edition

A new book for Paper 2, World History Topic 12: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries (20th Century) Readable and rigorous cove...

East London Buses: The Twenty-First Century

With a wealth of previously unpublished images, Malcolm Batten observes what has changed in the East London bus scene since the turn of t...

Putin's Prisoner - My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine

Brought to you by Penguin. Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing th...

Central and Eastern Europe and the World in the 20th Century - Continuities and Discontinuities

The scientific collective monograph Central and Eastern Europe and the World in the 20th Century. Continuities and Discontinuities is bas...

The Origins of the Cold War

Der "Kalte Krieg", diese über vierzig Jahre andauernde Konfrontation zwischen Ost und West, die eigentlich 1989/90 endete, erfährt angesi...

The Spymaster of Baghdad - The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS

'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as ...

The Russo-Ukrainian War - From the bestselling author of Chernobyl

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT 'The best account of the ongoing conflict ¿ its preconditions ...

Gomorrah. 10th Anniversary Edition - Italy's Other Mafia

In the Camorra system murder is necessary; it's like depositing money in the bank, purchasing a franchise, or breaking off a friendship. ...

The Cold War

In this meticulously researched account, Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand. A...

Zwölf Monate - Zwölf Namen. Twelve Months-Twelve Names - 50 Jahre Olympia-Attentat München. 50 Years Olympic Massacre Munich

On the morning of September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists attacked the accommodation of Israeli athletes in Connollystraße in the...

A Child Called It

The bestselling beginning of the "My Story" trilogy is available again here, in which Pelzer looks back on his steadfast determination th...

The Arab-Israeli War of Attrition, 1967-1973. Volume 2 - Fighting Across the Suez Canal

This book details the period of the Arab-Israeli conflict between the June 1967 and October 1973 wars, referred to as the War of Attritio...

Musik und ihre gesellschaftliche Bedeutung in den staats- und postsozialistischen Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas seit 1945

Für die Kulturpolitiker der Ostblockstaaten war Musik in herrschaftspolitischer Hinsicht viel zu bedeutend, als dass sie die Entwicklunge...

Dead Man Walking - The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to...

M60 Vs T-62 - Cold War Combatants 1956-92

Designed for the battlefields of Europe at the height of the Cold War, the M60 and T-62 were the premier combat tanks of their day. Howev...

Diplomacy in Southeastern Europe - Interactions during Détente

This issue of zeitgeschichte off ers a comprehensive survey of aspects of Yugoslav foreign policy during Cold War détente. Due to its geo...

Imperial Island - A History of Empire in Modern Britain

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years. 'An eye-ope...

China in Ten Words

A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 1...

Fare Well, Illyria

As a reporter for the prestigious New York Times the author interviewed many of the leading political figures of the Balkans (Illyria, as...

The Last Yakuza - A Life in the Japanese Underworld

'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else.' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice When accla...

Nothing But the Truth - Selected Dispatches

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya...

Consumed - A Sister's Story

A moving memoir about TB, grief, sisterhood, poverty and the reservoir of blame, guilt and unreliable memories from a troubled childhood ...

Scheisse! We're Going Up! - The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club

Scheisse! recounts the extraordinary story of Union Berlin, the German Bundesliga's most spirited football club, interwoven with a witty ...

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction

Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Col...

The Afghanistan Papers - A Secret History of the War

Just as the Pentagon Papers exposed our government’s lies about Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers reveals how three successive presidents a...

Lowborn - Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns

A personal and agenda-changing assessment of poverty in Britain from the novelist, activist and columnist, engaging with the extent to wh...