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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian
'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARRAs Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years,...
Britain, China, and Colonial Australia
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Glass
A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a call from the Prime Minister of his former country, inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister's biography. As he...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
When Emma Sky, an intrepid young British woman, volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, she had little idea what she was letting herself in for....
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What [...]
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...
What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It
Six years after Brexit, it can feel like we're still having the same conversations.This is the explainer we need to move on.And we do need to move on, because in...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the [...]
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' DAILY TELEGRAPH'No other recent...
Kompromat
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Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly [...]
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
Crisis
We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict
In this book, Michael Nicholson outlines social scientific approaches to international relations and then describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations. He shows how rationality is in many...
One Halal of a Story
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Race, Nation, and Empire in American History
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and...
Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege
This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites...
Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct
Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong
'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times'An authoritative history' Financial Times'Gripping and richly researched' Rana MitterA superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian...
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
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Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq
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Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P.Kennedy
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East and West
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Blackout
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Divided We Stand: Britain, the United States and the Suez Crisis
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Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
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The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division
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Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
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Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy
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Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid
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Mayday
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Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now
Author: Cynthia E. SmithFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 300mm, 1100g, 240 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2022Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a...
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830-1910
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
Author: Kim Ghattas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Blistering' Sunday Times 'Indispensable' Observer 'Fascinating' The Times 'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan 'Revelatory' Lindsey Hilsum A timely and unprecedented examination of how...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life
Author: Theresa May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARR As...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Author: Marc-William Palen (Senior Lecturer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance
Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul
Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...