FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY 'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent
The electrifying story of Indiaââ?¬â?¢s struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of …
The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India ââ?¬â?? from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continentââ?¬â?¢s social, …
POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin …
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and …
ââ?¬Ë?Joyous ââ?¬Â¦ a book that makes other journalists weep with envyââ?¬â?¢ The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ââ?¬Â¦ an eloquent, …
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and …
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, …
