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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lebanese Civil War Volume 5: Rushing to the Deadline, 11-12 June 1982

The days of 11-13 June, 1982, proved that Arik Sharon's plan was over-ambitious and adventuristic. Dragging the IDF into the fight with S...

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Medicine presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 250...

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...

Foxtrot in Kandahar - A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War

This is the true story of Evans's unexpected journey from the pristine halls of Langley to the badlands of southern Afghanistan.

Klaxon! - Strategic Air Command Alert During the Cold War

From 1957 until 1991, the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force (SAC) fought a war of deterrence. Every single day, 24 hours a day, s...

The Yugoslav Air Force in the Battles for Slovenia Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina 1991-1992 - Volume 2 - Jrvipvo in the Yugoslav War, 1991-1992

Based on author's unique approach to local archives and first-hand sources, and illustrated by over 120 photographs and color profiles, t...

War Made Invisible - How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our ...

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

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With a foreword by historian David Olusoga, this book will be an exploration of an untold chapter in both Black and British history, seen...

The Last Commander - The Once and Future Battle for Afghanistan

The compelling inside story of how America abandoned Afghanistan. When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant Genera...

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 ...

Year 2000 - The Inside Story of Y2K Panic and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever

Year 2000 shares the untold story of the actors operating on the global stage responsible for managing computer hardware and software for...

The Department - How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence

A thoroughly researched exposé of the bureaucratic violence and hostility of the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) over the last 30...

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