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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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the...
Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It
An indispensable guide to your right to protest'A lawyer in your pocket' - The Secret BarristerIn this handbook, campaigning lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything you need to know when...
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food...
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and...
No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost' FINANCIAL TIMES The unmissable...
Stalin's Wine Cellar
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. 'A wild, boys-own adventure...
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat...
The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death- the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba...
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848....
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...
History of the Russian Revolution
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the
From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...
We Do Not Part
Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful...
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women...
The State and Revolution
'The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution' In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin...
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the
The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things' (Caitlin Moran)...
Goliath: What the West got Wrong about Russia and Other Rogue States
We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here are 10 rules for how. Everything you think you know about...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
Lenin on the Train
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican
Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just...
A Most Wanted Man
A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...
Reading Lolita in Tehran
For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in...
Ten Days That Shook the World
The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A...
Underground
Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism...
Dreaming in the Urban Areas: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Kirli Saunders, Dreaming in the Urban Areas is an unforgettable work of Indigenous poetry. Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) was...
Optimism Over Despair
A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow -- from the greatest public intellectual of our times We have two choices. We...
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays
Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in...
Hitch-22: A Memoir
Over the last thirty years Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. His originality, bravery, range and wit made him first a leading...
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...
The Political Ideology of Hamas: A Grassroots Perspective
Hamas is typically portrayed in the West as nothing more than a terrorist organisation. Yet as Michael Irving Jensen discovers, it also provides medical clinics, kindergartens, schools, elderly care and...
Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to rewild the spirit
Author: Paul Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Life in the 21st century is throwing up challenges across the globe. From climate emergency to extreme politics, from women's rights...