One of Britain's most remarkable victories of the Second World War.

**Soon to be a major TV drama** The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years.

This study, of his premiership from 1964-70, shows Harold Wilson at the peak of his powers, from the optimistic 'new JFK' days, of 1964, to the realisation, by 1970, that Britain was a nation struggling to come to terms with its shrinking position in the world.

Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. His detailed description of the journey, set against the vast majesty of the Great Plains, has emerged through the generations as a classic narrative of one man's exploration of the American Wilderness.

In this classic text of social history, Harold Perkin explores the emergence of a new form of class society in Victorian England, which differed radically from early modern society.

This collection of papers by scholars from Britain, France, Germany, Holland and the United States highlights the complex and divergent nature of the diplomatic process that led to the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

In this book leading Irish historians examine the origins of sectarian division in early modern Ireland.

A concise introduction to one of the major historical controversies, brought right up-to-date for this 3rd edition.

A major synthesis of current research on the three wars fought by France during the Revolution - against Austria and Prussia; Britain, Spain and the United Provinces; and against the Second Coalition. contains analysis of the theories of war including Clausewitz, and the role of ideology

A concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861.

This well-reviewed classic survey examines the European origins of the war from three different angles: the explanations and historiographical debates they have sparked, an analysis of the major underlying forces at work, and a chronological narrative of the events.

The fascinating story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain's growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity.

Describes how the team of OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agents aided the Communist-led Partisans in an attempt to weaken the Nazi cause in Albania and neighboring Italy. This book also looks at the small core of hardened men who comprised these teams, including each member's background and his fitness for his wartime role behind enemy lines.

Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining, seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully nonconforming. This book reclaims the city from the modern bon vivants and speculators.

A single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, it concludes with the establishment of Turkish independence in the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923.

A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain.

The First World War was a human catastrophe but it also saw a dynamic development of new weapons and a new kind of war; Our Land at War takes you on a journey to the key places that witnessed this war effort and those at all levels of society who brought about the change.