A unique piece of testimony from the Soviet Gulag - a prison guard's private diary, written between 1935-36.

In The Dictator's Dilemma, eminent China scholar Bruce Dickson explains in highly accessible prose why the Communist Party regime has survived and prospered, despite constant predictions of its weakening and demise.

Groundbreaking studies of Britain's first major working-class movement

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin

The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.

A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now

In this remarkable story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.

In the last months of World War II, Hitler ordered destruction across Europe on a massive scale: wrecking towns, ports, industries, museums and railways. Yet a brave few, many of whom paid with their lives, disobeyed Hitler's orders. This book explores some of the great untold mysteries of the war.

Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.

A fresh, vivid look at Disraeli's life, achievements, and temperament that casts doubts on his much-touted commitment to Jewish rights

The untold story of Britain's covert military and intelligence operations since the end of World War II, and its secret scheming against enemies, as well as friends.

This text aims to provide an assessment of the First World War in Ireland and its consequences, arguing that this is the key to understanding the complexities of the Irish nation today. The author explores how the War transformed the nature of the Irish and Ulster.

Investigates the gradual division of the French Catholic reform movement, often associated with those known as the 'devots' during the first half of the seventeenth century. This title contrasts the fragmentation of the movement in the years beyond 1629, and the context of Richelieu's directions in French foreign policy.

Offers a humorous account of American life and customs in the 19th century.

The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.

Essential account of the making of Donald Trump's foreign policy

The plan was to attach a Greenpeace pod to Gazprom's platform and launch a peaceful protest against oil being pumped from the icy waters of the Arctic. However, heavily armed commandos flooded the deck of the Arctic Sunrise and the Arctic Thirty began their ordeal at the hands of Putin's regime. This book tells their story.

Using declassified files, Nigel West explores the heroic exploits of one of the Second World War's most closely guarded secrets.

Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945, this title details the Allied handling of enemy agents and the British infiltration of Nazi spy-rings. It tells the story of a triumphant operation in the Second World War's intelligence effort.