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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...

Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...

Author: Don Hale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...

Author: Enzo Traverso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to...

Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...

Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...

Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...

Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...

Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...

Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...

Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before....

Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...

Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . ....

Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...

Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...

Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...

Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...

Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...

Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...

Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The Times In the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but...

Author: Darren Byler (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated...

Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...

Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...

Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...

Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...

Author: Andrew Whitby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the...

Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...

Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...

Author: Michael Newton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing...

Author: David Frum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President...

Author: Philippe Girard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history

Author: John Pomfret Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War,...

Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this...

Author: Joe Mulhall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk,...

Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...

Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and hisallies fought to reverse the outcome of...

Author: Dick Lehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of...

Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...

Author: Richard Haass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 New York Times Bestseller An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone,...

Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...

Author: Joseph O Chapa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our...

Author: Douglas London Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents...

Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 #1 New York Times Bestseller Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation...

Author: Michael Holzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. He was one of the...