21st Century History: from c 2000

Take a voyage through the rich history of passenger ships. From mass migration through to luxury holidays, passenger shipping has played a central ...

A far-sighted analysis of the world order, and an urgent warning of what the future may hold in store. Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads Ex...

Writing in Life magazine in February 1941, Henry Luce memorably announced the arrival of The American Century. The phrase caught on, as did the bel...

The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision. Chris Bryant, MP for Rhondda WAS THE A...

Peter Hennessy brings his deep political and historical understanding to this study of two of the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced b...

This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describi...

*Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentato...

A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century   While the war film has carved out a prominent space with...

A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century   While the war film has carved out a prominent space with...

*Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentato...

DISCOVER THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA - FROM A MAN WHO'S SEEN IT ALL FROM THE INSIDEIn BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member...

The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient. Well be focused, and we...

The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghan...

From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilit...

The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghan...

Elite Oral History provides support for those intending to use oral history as a research tool to understand, analyse and describe developments in ...