The intriguing story of how two revolutionary writers, and their pioneering war reporting, changed the way we think about conflict.
A hundred-year history of modern Taiwan's challenges and triumphs, through the inspiring life of one man who saw it all.
The first popular history of a small post-Soviet state, and a very old European power.
A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
From communism to capitalism to collapse, the highs and lows of doing business in post-Soviet Russia.
A masterful new biography of North Korea's despotic founding father and his enduring impact on his country today.
A sweeping history of the ideology that refuses to disappear, and its tyrannical leaders around the world.
A new history of how we became multicultural, revealing the personal and community relationships that underpin Britain’s post-imperial transition.
We’re all getting poorer. What does that look like for British children, and their life chances?
A captivating culinary journey through the West’s love-hate relationship with anchovies.
A fascinating portrait of old cosmopolitan Central Europe, and a remarkable woman enduring as evil rises--all through the family belongings hidden in a suitcase.
This short history of the Maghreb surveys its development from the coming of Islam to the present day, but with greatest emphasis on the modern period from the early nineteenth century onwards.