What part will Germany – a land where over a long history of people have adopted layered identities – play in this new Europe? Whatever the answer, the implications for Britain and the future of the wider European project will be profound.
The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.
It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have... Læs mere
This biography spans Japan’s sudden, violent leap out of its self-imposed isolation and into the 20th century. Delving beyond Togo’s finest hour at the Battle of Tsushima,... Læs mere
Asks Wat is the Gulf Stream? Where does it begin and end? And Will global warming stop its flow?
Biography of the last British Prime Minister of the 20th Century.
Prime Minister known for announcing 'that Britain favoured a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine'.
Asquith's administration laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power struggle with the House of Lords. Asquith was Prime Minister on the outbreak of World War I, but his government fell in 1916 as a result of the 'Shells Scandal'.
Alec Douglas-Home was an aristocrat who disclaimed his peerage to become Prime Minister in 1963.
Bealport is a portrait of a place, at once sympathetic, mordant, unsparing, comic, tragic and universal, and of a way of life that is passing. It is a novel of a town, and to no small degree of every town in America and beyond.
With historical background and personal memories and associations van den Brink put down a lively description of Spain, its culture and traditions both in the city and the countryside.
This is a fascinating account of unexplored corners of one of the nation's best-known buildings, from the minutiae of decoration and diplomacy to the drama of terrorist bombs and political bombshells.