Combining history and travel narrative, this journey around the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, the sea which gave birth to Western civilisation... Læs mere
Is there any such thing as a European identity? Amidst all the kaleidoscopic variety what - if anything - do 28 members of the European Union have in common? If the EU is to succeed the big states of Europe must discover and define that common identity.
Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is best known for taking Britain into the European Union.
British Prime Minister who worked with Clinton to bring peace to Northern Ireland
A biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.
A biography of the Liberal British Prime Minister, 'Who Won the War'.
When Churchill died, one might have thought that it was not a man who was being borne to his grave, but British history itself - a resplendent, fortunate history whose last illustrious chapter Churchill himself had written almost a quarter of a century before.
Fatherly friend to JFK he repaired the rift between the USA and Britain created by the Suez crisis.
World War I sounded the death knell of empires. The last Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin thought he could salvage the Ottoman state in something like its old form. But... Læs mere
Written with unprecedented insight and access to family archives, this definitive biography of Gandhi sheds new light on the life of a man who was far more... Læs mere
Describes how the Bhutanese, in pursuit of the principle of Gross National Happiness, are carefully moving towards a more modern future, including a constitution and democracy, whilst preserving their traditional society and attempting to conserve the environment.
Did you know Chinese don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their... Læs mere