On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World War. Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two... Zobraziť viac
The Gulag was Russia’s forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive... Zobraziť viac
Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and... Zobraziť viac
Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, ... Zobraziť viac
Discover one of the most celebrated writers of our age - the visionary author of Infinite Jest andA Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again. From genre-defining reportage to genre-breaking fiction, ... Zobraziť viac
This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours... Zobraziť viac
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art. Zobraziť viac
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium... Zobraziť viac
From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives... Zobraziť viac
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium... Zobraziť viac
Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since... Zobraziť viac
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas—- Zobraziť viac
One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century... Zobraziť viac
The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The Eagle Unbowed... Zobraziť viac
A highly acclaimed, bestselling work from one of France's preeminent historians. What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, or a good friend?... Zobraziť viac
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the conseque Zobraziť viac
In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins... Zobraziť viac
Politics and the English Language is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth... Zobraziť viac
In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance... Zobraziť viac
