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In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to...

One of man s most enduring dreams is of a Utopian society in which all possessions are held in common ownership. As Professor Pipes argues in this book, such a...

The book titled Adventures on the Freedom Road by the author Bernard-Henry Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling first-hand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence...

A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great...

The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Against the Grain: An Autobiography by the author Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of Australia's twenty-first prime minister, Gough Whitlam, who swept to power in 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. His reform agenda modernised Australia and was ended...

This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...

The book titled Khrushchev on Khrushchev by the author Sergei Khrushchev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to...

This study explores the roots and growing power of fascism and the extreme right in Russia - a movement that the author asserts presents grave danger to the post-Cold War...

The book titled The Future Belongs to Freedom by the author Eduard Shevardnadze. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This important book presents Professor Rigby's key writings on the creation of elites in the Soviet Union. It shows how the nomenclature system evolved as a key instrument for directing...

Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's authorsubjectrelationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of SilvioBerlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who hasdominated Italian life...

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,...

The book titled Ataturk by the author Alan Palmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...

The book titled Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring by the author Fyodor M. Burlatsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's...

This is a study of the social, economic, and political role of Vodka in nineteenth-century Russia. Since the `Green Serpent' first appeared in sixteenth-century Muscovy, it has played a vital...

A collection of Thomas Paine's outstanding works on political revolution This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle...

This book is about nationalism, its history, the political forces it unleashes and its price in world politics. As the world becomes increasingly international through trade and multi-national companies, most...

The book titled Is S Talinism Really Dead? by the author Aleksandr Sergeevich eTiSipko. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1940, Edmund Wilson published "To the Finland Station", a study of the growth of the idea of communism. This book examines the lives of such men as Bukharin, Koestler,...

'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to...

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, was seen as vital to that country's future. In exile for years, in late 2007 she felt the...

Garry Kasparov has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition in the 2008 Presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra- like...

The book titled Solidarity, Solitude: Essays by Adam Zagajewski by the author Adam Zagajewski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

With the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost era, Russians have been forced to redefine their society and polity. Journalists, academics and politicians all needed a new language in which to articulate...

Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and at the same time a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and added...

The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was praised by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'. That...

The book titled Borderlands: Nation and Empire by the author Scott Malcolmson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The third volume of Alan Johnson's bestselling and award-winning memoirs takes us to the corridors of Westminster and lifts the lid on the life of a hard-working constituency MP... Winner...

A sensitive analysis of the thought and intellectual development of G. D. H. Cole (1889-1959) the distinguished Labour historian. Cole's career is traced from his earliest days in the Labour...

The book titled Letters of Leonard Woolf by the author Frederic Spotts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled The Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu by the author Mark Almond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...

In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the...

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...

China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto . 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in critical good...

"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world...

'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and...

The debate about the ethics of human biotechnology or genetic engineering is one of the most important cultural issues of our time. 'Transhumanism' is the philosophy that most of all...

When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers. Though...

The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country-with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year...

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you...