On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.

Based on hundreds of oral histories conducted in Europe and North America with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, plus primary documentation such as diaries and letters, Dwork reveals the feelings, daily activities and perceptions of Jewish children who lived and died at this time.

Featuring wide range of perspectives, this title contributes to the policy and academic dialogue on a rising China. It examines a range of perspectives on the nature of China's rise and its implications for Southeast Asian states as well as US interests in the region.

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

A comprehensive overview of the work of the Military Vehicles Research and Development Establishment on Chobham Common, which provided armoured vehicles for the British Army from 1945 to its close in 2004.

This book is a cultural history of seventeenth-century England. It explores the many, often contradictory ways people thought about themselves in relation to Jews, Judaism, and Jewish history. Grounded in archival research, the book analyzes the works of major writers including Foxe, Herbert, Bunyan, Milton, and Dryden.

By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. In Europe, Mons, the Marne and Ypres had given a taste of the devastating power of modern warfare - a reality to which troops in the trenches on both sides tried to turn a blind eye in the famous Christmas truce.

From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the "Very Interesting People" series provides bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". This title talks about Christopher Wren.

Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England through a closely focused study of the role of music and the Reformation. By reintegrating music back into the study of the Elizabethan church, it provides an enriched understanding of the complex process of the formation of

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Accessible and incisive new one-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

An exhaustive biographical portrait of one of the most enigmatic and important figures of the twentieth century.

The full story of Winston Churchill's lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish, now told for the first time. A long overdue book which at last addresses the most neglected part of Churchill's legacy on both sides of the Irish Sea.