A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches 'Endearingly personal, honest and reflective .
'Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past' Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off the mapThe siege of Saint Petersburg - then known as Leningrad - stands as a testament to human endurance.
One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis and joins SOE.
'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.
Being an Account: The Memoirs of Ernest Lycette, 1911–1921 is the first-hand memoir of Ernest Lycette, a Staffordshire scoutmaster and St John Ambulance volunteer who enlisted in the British Army in August 1914 and served through the First World War and its aftermath.
Born into slavery and denied even the certainty of his own birthday, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the most powerful voices of the 19th century.
Civil Unrest: A Comprehensive History of the American Civil WarFrom the smoldering tensions of a divided nation to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House, Civil Unrest takes readers on an unflinching journey through the most defining conflict in American history.
In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
Nuclear War: The Day Humanity Stood on the Edge is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of one of the most dangerous realities ever created by humankind—atomic conflict.
218,000,000 years ago, the impact of a large asteroid on Wilkes Land, Antarctica, caused a crater 500 km in diameter, the collision would have produced about 8000 million megatons.
For generations, Americans have been told a comforting lie: that slavery was only a side issue, that the Civil War was really about "e;states' rights,"e; economics, or cultural differences.
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, claiming an estimated 50 million lives worldwide and forever changing the way societies respond to infectious diseases.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Europe was shaken by a conflict that revealed both the ambitions of empires and the changing nature of modern warfare.
