How the KGB has plotted with mounting violence since 1999 to subdue the Ukrainians and how the population resisted through "Maidan" revolutions and what they mean to global stability.
The first history of the Russian secret services since 1917 to the present. In over a century of plotting assassinations - from Lenin to Trump - the Cheka finally grabbed power when Putin became president and he began to try to change the world order.
An investigation into the formative power of classical music and the social change it is bringing about all around the world.
When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski.
Sensuous, darkly funny bordering on demonic, Patricia and Malise is a wicked love story set in 1950s Italy that skillfully plays with British obsessions.
The untold story how Dwight Eisenhower secretly saved the world a second time as USA President by preventing a nuclear war from igniting when other countries invented the A-bomb.
The dramatic story of how the 13 mountain peaks, including the Matterhorn, were conquered by 25-year-old Edward Whymper, armed with tweeds, an ice-axe and Alpenstock. Includes for the first time the 56 photographs he took a decade later.
Helena Frith Powell noticed her first wrinkle when she accidentally caught sight of herself in her car's... Læs mere
Never before published in book form, these real dispatches from the real Dad's Army show how everything was affected, from petrol to pets, from restaurants to smoking, and not just food and clothing.
First memoir on bestselling giants of the art world (and great eccentrics), Hugh Honour and John Fleming by one of their closest friends over 60 years.
A hard-hitting history by one of Britain's leading public-health experts.
A gripping first-hand portrait of the Falklands War by Lt. Col. Crispin Black who fought during the war and was on the Sir Galahad when it was bombed.