Political Oppression & Persecution

How can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm? With a pen in one hand and watercolours in t...

More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed...

The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'A ripping read. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling' New York Times'A chilli...

The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State explores the governance of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization through the lives and words of ...

During the Nazi regime in Germany, all police forces were centralised under the command of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The political police (...

A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of...

Since independence, African countries have been confronted with the relics of colonial powers and, in southern Africa, white minority regimes. The ...

**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...

Greta Thunberg. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Anita Sarkeesian. Emma Gonzalez. When women are vocal about political and social issues, too-often they a...

Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, believing he'd return to his pregnant fiancee, Paola, in just a few d...

Confronting the truths of Canadas Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, Davi...

On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Irans Gilan province. Barely two months ...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARSayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important ...

The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the milestones of history. Everyone, it is said, remembers where they were when they heard t...

The Rohingya are a Muslim group who live in Rakhine state (formerly Arakan state) in western Myanmar (Burma), a majority Buddhist country. Accordin...

How did the Shah of Iran become a modern despot? In 1953, Iranian monarch Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi emerged victorious from a power struggle with...

Truth commissions, apologies, and reparations are just some of the transitional justice mechanisms embraced by established democracies. This ground...

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave a...

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us to...

Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award FinalistProvocative, elegantly written.Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Revi...

In nineteenth-century France, authorities feared the inflammatory power of the stage, but sought to exploit it as an effective means of propaganda....

A deaf-mute woman waiting for her brother to pick her up in front of shop window is arrested by two members of the Saudi morality police (mutawas) ...

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.What a beautiful book MAX PORTERI...

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalins Gulagshowing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions   A byword for injust...

Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levelsfrom the literal to the metaphorical. It combines ana...

Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levelsfrom the literal to the metaphorical. It combines ana...

A Palestinian prisoners memoir of thirty years captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wal...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier...

Houshang Asadis Letters to My Torturer is one of the most harrowing accounts of human suffering to emerge from Iran and is now available for the fi...

In the late 1970s, at the age of nineteen, Oiva Angula left his home in Windhoek and went into exile in Angola, where he joined SWAPOs military win...