Political Oppression & Persecution

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...

The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish ...

The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of E...

Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achi...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalins dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.  In this compelli...

'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded,...

The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination o...

The Khmer Rouge rise to power in 1975 gave birth to a terrifying new order. By 1979, when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia, up to two million peo...

South Africas governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has undergone dramatic changes over the last thirty years. Historically a hotbe...

In its comprehensive analysis of a wide range of primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and Western languages, this authoritative work stand...

The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling auth...