*Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic …
The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan s masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of …
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This is a book that none of us can afford to ignore an agenda-setting, campaigning investigation that shows how global finance works for the few and not the many.** A Financial …
The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the …
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In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. Of Egypt's 80 million citizens, two-thirds were under 30. …
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The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, …
