The untold story of how the 9/11 Commission overcame partisanship and bureaucracy to produce its acclaimed report.From the beginning, the 9/11 Commission found itself facing …
September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. The case is among those which constitute the European …
How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those …
During the Nazi occupation, the inhabitants of the Plateau Vivarais Lignon saved several thousand people from the concentration camps. This book tells a story of courage and …
In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. His one …
'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday TimesThe Allied victory …
The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the …
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native …
Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great …
This title reveals a new picture of Britain's real role in the world, analysing British foreign policy since 1945 and offering a comprehensive critique of the foreign policies of …
