20th Century History

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...

From the world?s foremost intellectual activist, here is an irrefutable analysis of America?s pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow. The United States is...

Described by the FBI as 'The most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source'. For twelve years, at enormous personal risk, Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled material from one of...

An "exhilarating" (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft-edited by Ann Charters "As we just now begin to map...

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (...

Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the...

The prequel to the million-copy bestseller, A Woman of Substance, where, high on the Yorkshire moors, the story of Blackie O'Neill and Emma Harte begins... Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie...

A very special collector's edition of two of Josephine Cox's most well-loved books to mark the tenth anniversary of The Journey and Journey's End, a heartbreaking tale of family drama....

Jacob Epstein ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. Stephen Gardiner knew the Epstein family intimately and draws on personal research and a mass of unpublished...