Political Oppression & Persecution

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...

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and...

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular ...

The Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of member...

In this book, former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the ...

Now a major documentary film starring Billy BraggIn the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political en...

_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story...

From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making exp...

A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China...

A revelatory account of what is really happening to China's Uyghurs'Intimate, sombre, and damning... compelling.' Financial Times'Chilling... Horri...

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence. Prohibiting torture will not end it. In Understanding Torture, John T. Parry expl...