This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.
The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission.
The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission.
One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong brilliantly reveals the contradictions and comedy, past and present, of Eritrea.
The first biography of Airey Neave, Colditz escapee, MI6 officer, mastermind of Margaret Thatcher’s leadership campaign and on the verge of being her first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he was brutally murdered in the palace of Westminster by the INLA.
In 1942 at the centre point of World War II an extraordinary event took place not on the battlefield but in a municipal stadium in Kiev. This is the true story of courage, team loyalty and fortitude in the face of the most brutal oppression the world had ever seen.
The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.
Previously published as The Hunting of Man
One shot, one kill: a cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during the battle for Litchfield in the English Civil War, to the present day, when the sniper has become the embodiment of contemporary military strategy and technology.
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