After the War Manston became a Transport Command staging post. Between 1950 and 1958 Manston was under the control of the USAAF. The 60s were dominated by aircraft using the Foam Landing system which became operational in 1964. Until it closed in 1999 RAF Manston remained an important front-line station with a long history going back to 1916.

Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library '100 Maps' series. This new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of today.

Discover the hidden history of women through this fascinating collection celebrating everyday, intimate objects.

A concise people's history of Europe spanning from the First World War to today

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CIA.

An engagingly accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future

This is a short history of the political life of this island over a very long period, showing how history can speak clearly to current political debates.

A stunningly evocative portrait of Hitler's Germany through the people of a single village.

In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historical context.

The President who `freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. Or was he a pragmatist whose leadership minimised the destruction of the war?.This concise biography situates Lincoln in his time and place.

It is an assumption that Britain was steeped in imperialism domestically, which affected almost everything Britons thought, felt, and did. This book examines this assumption against the background of contemporary British society. It argues that the empire had a lower profile in Britain than it did abroad.

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph

The remarkable story of President Harry Truman's first four months in office when this unlikely, small-town, Washington outsider had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance - one of the most extraordinary challenges in American presidential history.