1 The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family
by Martin Pugh
| Format: | Paperback 560 pages |
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| Published: | 03/07/2008 |
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The suffragettes outraged Victorian society, yet behind the protests, arrests and hunger strikes, the personal lives of Emmeline Pankhurst and her... Read more
2 One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
| Format: | Paperback 448 pages |
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| Published: | 02/04/2009 |
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October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. This book tells both the human and the political story of Black Saturday,... Read more
3 Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
| Format: | Paperback 400 pages |
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| Published: | 12/04/2012 |
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Presents a portrait of Africa's Great War. This title shows how Congo became a failed state that, rocked by violence arising from the aftermath... Read more
4 New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
| Format: | Paperback 320 pages |
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| Published: | 29/09/2011 |
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Illustrates that while the West has refocused its gaze away from the Kremlin to more immediate terrorist threats in the post September 11th era, the... Read more
5 A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
by Chris Mullin
| Format: | Paperback 416 pages |
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| Published: | 14/01/2010 |
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The author has been a Labour MP for 20 years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line, he has held several prominent posts. This book offers... Read more
6 My Traitor's Heart
by Rian Malan
| Format: | Paperback 425 pages |
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| Published: | 17/01/1991 |
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The first book by a South African who has worked as a journalist in both his native country and the United States. It offers a black and Afrikaaner... Read more
7 Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
by Jean Sasson, Najwa Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden
| Format: | Paperback 320 pages |
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| Published: | 01/05/2011 |
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In their own words, Osama bin Laden'swife and son tell the astonishing story of the man they knew - or thought they knew Read more
8 Ten Days That Shook the World
by A. Taylor, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed
| Format: | Paperback 368 pages |
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| Published: | 26/04/2007 |
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Presents an account of the Russian revolution. This book describes the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally... Read more
9 Wellington: The Iron Duke
| Format: | Paperback 416 pages |
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| Published: | 03/02/2003 |
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Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man... Read more
10 The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
by Norman Stone
| Format: | Paperback 688 pages |
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| Published: | 25/08/2011 |
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Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was... Read more
