21st Century History: from c 2000

The best single-volume analysis of Burma, its checkered history, and its attempts to reform Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast As...

The story of North Korea''s information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country''s borders One of the leas...

Front Line Bloggers Afghanistan and Helmand Blog Afghanistan (now combined as UK Forces Afghanistan) were established by the MoD to allow UK arme...

When British Airways and Air France announced that Concorde was to be retired from service in October 2003, it signalled the end of nearly three de...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France''s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guill...

Uniquely imprisoned, most Palestinians in Gaza cannot travel beyond the confines of the Strip, and in times of war escape is impossible. They live ...

The period since 1939 has seen more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales has developed a more assertive identi...

The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its...

From her first public broadcast in 1940 as a 14-year-old princess, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has given loyal service throughout her long and g...

The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At th...

Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years. In this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles that...

The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of the Olympi...

Lance Corporal Dean Bailey was just 22 when he was sent to Afghanistan as a Sniper Section Commander. Craving the opportunity to finally see some a...

Sudan is at a crossroads. The country could soon witness one of the first partitions of an African state since the colonial era. The 2005 Comprehen...

Sudan is at a crossroads. The country could soon witness one of the first partitions of an African state since the colonial era. The 2005 Comprehen...

From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire. Author Richard Seymour alle...

What started as a small New York City youth group quickly became one of the most prominent grassroots activist/citizen journalist organizations, wi...

The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost...

Michael Gove is one of the most recognisable faces in British politics - and one of the most divisive. Whether it's taking on the education `blob',...

After a decade as Conservative Party leader and six years as Prime Minister, he remains an enigma to those outside his exclusive inner circle.Now, ...

Georgian Portraits chronicles everyday life in the Republic of Georgia in the decade that followed the Rose Revolution of 2003. Recent anthropologi...

Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently...

The Chaos in the Middle East: 2014-2016 provides an up-to-date overview of the problems currently affecting the Middle East, and sets them in conte...

In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby ...

The biography of a true Irish political legend As harsh economic times return to Ireland, it is time to celebrate this inspirational Irishman who ...

Essential reading. ESQUIRE Both absorbing and highly illuminating  THE BOOKSELLER No one understands the intricacies of YouTube like Chris Stoke...

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it...

What's Next for the Middle East...and How Will It Affect Us?Iran has repeatedly declared its intention to destroy Israel. ISIS continues to gain gr...

How a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced TragedyDon't tell me there's no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland. Fred Guttenberg2020 ...

  Captain Tom Moore: fundraiser, World War Two veteran, the nation's hero. Read all about the life of Captain Tom Moore who wen...