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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Where Men Win Glory - The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Pat ...

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...

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...

Mrs Slocombe's Pussy

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...

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...

Authoritarian Regimes in the Long Twentieth Century - Preconditions, Structures, Continuities - Contributions to European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research

This special issue of the journal "zeitgeschichte" presents the results of the doctoral theses written within the framework of the "Docto...

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...

Fire and Flood - A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present

The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more th...

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...

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...

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...

Come Together - Years of Gay Liberation

Come Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movemen...

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...

How Things Fall Apart - What Happened to the Cuban Revolution

A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore use...

Roads to Berlin - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany

From a Dutch author, this traces Berlin's history from the fall of the wall to the present day. Covers politics, people, architecture and...

Windrush - 75 Years of Modern Britain

The oral history of Britain¿s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants

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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Wages for Housework - A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever

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...

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 Berlin Wall - 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989

The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was bo...

Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

This second edition of Nelson Mandela VSI focuses on a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela's ethic of re...

Ukraine and Russia - From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War

D'Anieri explains the invasion of Ukraine by exploring dynamics between Ukraine, Russia and the West since the fall of the Soviet Union. ...

Putin's Wars - From Chechnya to Ukraine

The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the r...

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 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...