The battle for the Falklands
[adapted from the editor]
A chronicle of the call to arms and an informed analysis of the Falklands War, as viewed from UK.
This war was one of the strangest in British history - 28,000 men...
History, Modern
Memories from beyond
François-René de Chateaubriand's main work, written from 1809 under the title Mémoires de ma vie (Memoirs of my life) until 1841. Jean d'Ormesson describes it as an “absolute masterpiece”.
Although...
Rediscovering God in America
As the front cover announces, the book is a collection of reflections on the role of faith in the nation’s history and future. The author, a former Speaker of the United States House of...
Ekaterinburg - The last days of the Romanovs
[adapted from the editor]
A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.
As a result of the 1917 October...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
With the help of sources that only a few years ago were declassified for the public, the author has written the most complete biography of Churchill and perhaps the most balanced.
He presents the...
The Gutenberg Revolution
A man and his machine. Johann Gutenberg invention saw the passing of the hand-copied manuscript to the mass printing by movable type over a period of just fifty years to the beginning of the 16th Century....
The World on Fire
In this brilliant narrative, Amanda Foreman tells the fascinating story of the American Civil War--and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle. Between 1861 and 1865,...
Bible and Sword
"Bible and Sword" by Barbara Tuchman explores how Britain came to be the country that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. It centers on the conquest of Palestine by Britain in the...
The Prince and the Plunder
In 1868, British troops charged into the mountain empire of Ethiopia, stormed the citadel of its monarch Tewodros II and grabbed piles of his treasures and sacred manuscripts. They also took his son – six-...
The Bombing of Darwin
It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 February 1942, when everything changed - changed from peace to war.
When fourteen-year-old Tom Taylor moves to Darwin with his...