This updated edition confirms Solnit's seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change

Most observers have maintained that US machinations were responsible for the success of General Augusto Pinochet's coup. This book examines one of the most controversial chapters in US intelligence history, the CIA's covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. It shows that the conventional wisdom about the impact of US actions is flawed.

From Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a new selection of writings about Europe between the wars, by turns poignant, witty and unsettling.

Revealing the story of Germany through the inhabitants of one small wooden building: a nobleman farmer, a Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children, a Stasi informant, this book moves from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from the devastation of two world wars to the dividing and reuniting of a nation.

Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it's still driving him crazy.

If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that's a big 'if'), then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the cannons stopped firing, French historians began re-writing history. The Duke of Wellington was beaten, they say, and then the Prussians jumped into the boxing ring, breaking all the rules of battle.

A provocative and propulsive look at American history, and the myth that the Civil War's "new birth of freedom" ended oligarchy. It just moved westward.

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.

The result is a provocative and absorbing history of the United States' NEW YORK TIMES For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas territory.

First printed in 1943, this book was produced to set out the 'simple safeguards, the common sense rules, and the good habits which we can make part and parcel of our everyday lives'. It offers advice on various topics, from eating and drinking to exercise and good health, to coping with 'sex problems'.

Worried by Wittgenstein? Confused by Chomsky? Thrown by Thoreau? Worry no longer!

Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.

These charged images from the Great War cover a wide range of products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones, cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914 and 1918.

For the first time ever, we are given an inside look at the US military's drone program that revolutionized modern warfare.

The author's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. In this memoir, the author captures the rhythms, struggles and rough edges of a rural life that was already dying even as he grew.

Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. This book demonstrates the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs - and the extent to which they were distinctly British.

A story of great daring, imagination and unparalleled human courage - the biography of an aircraft which came to personify toughness and audacity.

An irresistible comic novel from master storyteller Everett, who pens an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America.