Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity, Walking Pepys’s London is an unmissable exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.
This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing... Læs mere
Black Earth is a vivid first-hand account of an extensive journey through a contested nation.
A fresh and stimulating look at Hitler's dictatorship through the study of ten key historical aspects. The portrait that emerges is one of a murderous fantasist and political opportunist driven by an all-embracing ideology of racial superiority.
In this brilliant and humane journey, Jens Mühling explores the nations, societies and minorities jostling passionately around the Black Sea.
With Owen's characteristic insight and expertise, Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma depicts a relationship governed by principle as often as by suspicion, expediency, and outright necessity.
This updated edition includes expanded coverage on the Second World War, as well as new sections on Finns in America and Russia, the centenary of the republic, and Finland's battle with COVID-19, right up to its historic application to join NATO.
During the enforced idleness of the Covid-19 pandemic, Christopher Somerville revisited the 450 notebooks whose pages contain the accumulated thoughts and experiences of a career spent exploring Britain on foot over four decades.
The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.
In his powerfully argued short book, Ramin Jahanbegloo contends that the time has come for humanity to renew its commitment – politically, economically, and culturally – to the idea of non-violence.
A deep reflections on the nature of trust in the context of public life.
A humorous and sideways look at the lives of some of the great and eccentric economic minds.