This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from...
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history....
'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and SteelGeography is Destiny...
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best...
When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest and most powerful empire in...
The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the longest-serving...
'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on...
A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance and incredible...
The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world. In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of...
The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from...
A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the worldIf there are lessons from history, now is the time when we need...
We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant,...
The War of 1812 - the last time Britain and America went to war with each other. British redcoats torch the White House and six...
This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and...
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society, to academic disciplines that confirm what is...
The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to...
In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to...
An incisive account of Erdogan's Turkey - showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived Since coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdogan has...
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will...
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