With characteristic balance, this book describes the long retreat and final dissolution of the British Empire. It traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.

This study places interwar European in its historical context and analyses its relationship with other right-wing authoritarian movements and regimes. It explores Fascism not only in germany and Italy, but across the entire Europen continent.

Fascism is one of the most destructive and influential political movements of the 20th century. This study tackles how fascism is defined, the basis of its appeal and why it took root so successfully in Germany and Italy, but not in France or Britain.

Fascism is notoriously hard to define. In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world, to make sense of its ideology and place in the modern world.

Looks at a country in thrall to a charismatic dictator. Tracing fascism from its conception to its legacy, this title unpicks why the regime enjoyed so much support among the majority of the Italian people. It examines the extraordinary hold the Duce had on Italy and how he came to embody fascism.

A narrative of the turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It is a history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.

An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.

The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have come out of America.

A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria's life that reveals for the first time the true instigator at the heart of government.

This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. The fez's opposing associations - both revered Eastern-Islamic headdress and banal tourist souvenir - exactly reflects Turkey's cultural faultline.

Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand

This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Cold war and the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union that has dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century.

The story of the dramatic collapse of the British and French colonial empires in the aftermath of the Second World War - now told for the first time as part of one global process

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. The author presents an account of compelling narratives of the Second World War. He brings to the fore the woman resisters, who history neglected.

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. The author returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they were, and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did, bringing to the fore stories of the women resisters, whom history has neglected.

In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort.

Recounting the role of the church during emancipation, Jim Crow and black leadership, this incisive book tells the story of one of the most influential African American institutions in the south - the Dexter Avenue Church.

Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before.

Europe's second Thirty Years War - an epoch of blood and ashes

Europe's second Thirty Years War-an epoch of blood and ashes

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time