The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US recruit who was...
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...
A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique...
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 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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
'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...
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...
A landmark anthology of extraordinary Russian writers, revealing the full story of the emigre experience in their own words Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' - Washington Post '[An] epic history ......
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Today in America, we live in "the upside down." Lies have become truth while truth and those seeking it are silenced and vilified. Our nation desperately needs a generation to...
Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Evie's sharp and funny. Lottie's a day-dreamer. Evie's the fighter, Lottie's the peace-maker. What they do have in...
Politics: The three vowels and five consonants which control our world.'But what has politics got to do with me?' I hear you ask. Well, quite a lot really. Whether you...
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how...
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A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants. There is nobody on the Latino, New York, and national political...
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial Times'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony...
This book is the hard conversation we must have.In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the...
AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer'A beautiful novel about an American...
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...
'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox OBE'Smart and courageous, this book should be on everyone's must-read list.' Naomi...