21st Century History: from c 2000

With the rise to power of the fifth generation in 2012, Xi Jinping became the undisputed leader of China. For the first time, the descendant of a C...

A History of the Womens FA Cup Final is an exhaustive account of fifty finals, from the first (on a bumpy field inside an athletics stadium) to the...

The Cricket World Cup in 2019 was the first to be held in England for 20 years and expectations were high. It did not disappoint. Over six weeks an...

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost ...

In 2019, Oscar-winning special effects supremo John Richardson released his first book, the bestselling Making Movie Magic, which chronicled his re...

A fascinating and very moving (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning fr...

Freight operations on Britain''s rail network have changed enormously in the last two decades. In this book author and photographer Paul D. Shannon...

Following Ratf**ked, his extraordinary timely and undeniably important (New York Times Book Review) exposé of how a small cadre of Republican opera...

An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its foundertold through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle   As seen on 60 Minutes ...

Syria's descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more than nine million people have fled their homes. In thi...

The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obamas administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark ...

An updated edition of Ben Pimlotts classic biography of the Queen: There is no better biography of Elizabeth II. PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sun...

The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris ­ a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure...

From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of ...

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights c...

Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the co...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is diz...

'A further and devastating indictment not only of Tony Blair personally but of a whole apparatus of state and government, Cabinet, Parliament, arme...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic''s Pick 2019''A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.'' Financial Times''Thant...

Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its border...

The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and ...

It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country...

Greece has always been celebrated for its classical past, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, but in recent years the country has been at the c...

The September 11th attacks in 2001 and the subsequent 'War on Terror' have had a profound effect on American cinema, and the contemporary Western i...

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October...

The life, crimes and bloody end of John Goldfinger Palmer were straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster and Marnie Palmer, his wife of forty years,...

The television set the humble box in the corner of almost every British household has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern ...

U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream, flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, ...