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The Finest Hotel in Kabul

Lyse Doucet

BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan – the first book from one of the world’s leading war correspondents.'Simply unforgettable' ELIF SHAFAK'Terrific' THE...

SAS: The Ambush

Tony Hoare

'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabSierra Leone, 2000.While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped.The captors are a dangerous rebel group known as the West Side Boys. Fuelled by alcohol and drugs, the behaviour of the rebels...

The Traitors Circle

Jonathan Freedland

Indignity

Lea Ypi

'Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting the many possibilities of telling a life story... also an oblique history of 20th-century Albania, illuminating all its perversities, absurdities and ruthlessness' William Boyd, Observer'Stunningly...

The Art of War (The Concise Classic)

Sun Tzu

THE MOST IMPACTFUL LESSONS OF SUN TZU PAIRED WITH THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS AND MODERN APPLICATIONS IN AN ELEGANT AND ACCESSIBLE FORMATSun Tzu's The Art of War is a timeless masterpiece of strategy and leadership, celebrated for its profound insights into preparation,...

War and Power

Phillips Payson O'brien

'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the evolution of warfare and its implications for conflicts like the ongoing one in Ukraine' Francis Fukuyama--------------------War and power are two...

Peacemakers

Margaret Macmillan

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MAX HASTINGSWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2001WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2002WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2003'A ground-breaking book . . . The story of Europe's diplomatic meltdown has never been better told'...

Redemption

Peter R. Mansoor

Redemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by US armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and the Filipino guerrilla operations which contested...

Generation GDR

Jamie Bulloch , Peter Wensierski

A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.Friday, April 10th, 1981: 23-year-old Mathias Domaschk boards the fast train from Jena to Berlin, on his way to a birthday party. But he never arrives . ....

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky

Garrett M. Graff

The State and the Soldier

Kori Schake

America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

Joad Raymond Wren

An epic history of the birth of news in EuropeNews moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel.This book tells the story of news...

The Women Are Not Fine

Hope Reese

The First World War

Norman Ferguson

Have you ever wondered... Who fired the first British shot of the First World War? Who claimed the glory of downing the Red Baron? Who was the first WW1 soldier to receive the Victoria Cross?Telling the stories of the battles, the aircraft, the weapons, the soldiers,...

The Second World War

Norman Ferguson

Have you ever wondered... Who was the deadliest sniper of the war? How low did the Dambusters fly? How many ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor?Telling the stories of the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Leningrad, the horrors of the Holocaust, the D-Day landings and the...

Reproductive Rights in Modern France

Maud Anne Bracke

The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...

Imaginary Homelands

Salman Rushdie

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and...

World War 1: A Historical 1920s Mystery of Espionage and Suspense (The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI)

Leo Blankenship

The first world war was one of the most devastating conflicts in our history.The death toll was like nothing experienced before, and it is estimated that over 11 million soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing, and many of those bodies have never been...

Babylon History: An Enthralling Overview of Babylon and the Babylonians (The History of the Civilizations That Lived in Canaan Before the Israelites)

Brad Coleman

The assyrians’ forced exile of the israelites was not the only time such a fate had befallen them, as made clear by babylonian accounts and the biblical account of the exodus out of egypt, but it was that exile that permanently scattered most of the legendary 12 tribes...

Babylon History: The Story of the Tower and the Rebellion of Man (The History and Culture of One of the Ancient World's Most Influential Civilizations)

Roger Forrester

The babylonians were indisputably a formidable force in the ancient world’s stage, but how did they rise to power three separate times in middle eastern history? What led to their cataclysmic falls? And why did everyone keep stealing their chief god marduk? Dive into...