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The Scottish Revolution 1637-44
In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of...
Oodgeroo: A Tribute
Written by her longtime friend and fellow activist Kathleen Cochrane, this beautifully told story about Oodgeroo contains poetry, speeches and rare family photographs of the life of this wonderful activist,...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,
Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
Winner of the NCR Book Award. Number 1 bestseller in hb. World-wide best-seller. The book which made Schama's name The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French...
Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon
As the recent presidential campaign revealed, the Vietnam War remains a political lightning rod. In the 1980s, even as a Gallup poll listed Fonda as one of the most admired...
Dr Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: the Case Re-opened
Dr. Samuel Mudd's guilt or innocence in the Lincoln assassination is debated by a distinguished group of jurists and Civil War historians recently convened by the University of Richmond School...
Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she...
Big Boys' Rules: Secret Struggle Against the IRA
In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the mid-1970s to the Loughgall shooting in 1987. Drawing on interviews with people...
Fidel and Che: The Revolutionary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and
FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the remarkable friendship between two iconic figures. Not yet thirty, Fidel Castro and Ernesto (Che) Guevara met in 1955 while...
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert...
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024 The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's...
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture
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...
Nuclear War: A Scenario
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up...
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can
A masterclass on how to achieve real change 'Everything a manifesto should be- heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.' The i __________________________________________________ Your country needs you. Your planet needs you. Your time...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
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Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo
The iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first time In 1791, inspired by the ideals...
No More Heroes
Simon Weekes becomes an overnight celebrity after his heroics during the 7/7 Bombings. But Simon can't afford the newfound fame and attention - he has too much to lose. July...
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the...
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. ONE OF US is the definitive account of the...
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6....
The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught
Sydney Gibbes was appointed tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II in 1908 and over the next six years lived as one of the family in the royal palace....
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which...
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can...
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold
The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer...
A Few Bloody Noses: The American War of Independence
The War of Independence was one of the founding events of today's world, but it has been simplified into a myth of liberty against oppression, right against wrong. A recent...
Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax picks up where that book ended with this hard-hitting, well-reasoned examination of the latest findings about "collusion" between...
JFK: Say Goodbye to America
American distrust of government, politicians and authority in general can be traced back to the time of the official investigation into the assassination of President John F Kennedy, and the...
Intruders in the Bush
This treatise challenges the bushman legend and presents evidence that discontented white Australian intellectuals of the 1890s romanticized the bushman and his notions of companionship. The text has been revised...
The Soccer War
Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its...
The Eleventh Day
'The best available account of 9/11 - soberly written, judiciously weighted, meticulously sourced' Robert Harris Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of...
The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
The Incarcerations
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...
Winnie Mandela: A Life
Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few...
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls...
The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war. From September 11,...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
"A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian ' Breath-taking courage and compassion [...]a beautiful book' The Sunday Times...
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat To The Craziest Campaign In American
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compelling... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all...
The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the First Gulf War
In 1991, while one war was being waged against Iraq, another was being fought amongst the American generals leading the operation. The Generals' War offers unvarnished portraits of the top...
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in...
Beyond Vietnam
With a new foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At...