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Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy
This is a true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Boris Hembry...
Bulgarian Fighter Colours 1919-1948: Volume 2
Bulgaria is arguably the historically most underrated Axis ally that actually fought the Allies during World War 2. Despite remaining outside the main battleground of the war, the Eastern Front,...
Blackbirding: A reckoning with the Australian slave trade
An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...
The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital
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The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen...
Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State
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Originating at a conference held at UCC in 1997, these essays draw on scholarly findings in the fields of history, political science and folklore, providing a professional evaluation of Michael...
The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle
The full story of Britain's Special Operations Executive in Albania and the extraordinary challenges and conditions they faced. In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the...
Military Intelligence Blunders
This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders...
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China: FINALIST FOR
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025 'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer
*Shortlisted for the 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE** 'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer 'Utterly...
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the
From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary terrorists of the 1970s "A...
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies
Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For...