Antony Beevor This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals...

Conn IgguldenKing Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead.In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age...

Lawrence Freedman Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the...

Aaron J KleinAward-winning journalist Aaron J. Klein tells, for the first time, the complete story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli counterterrorism operation it spawned. With unprecedented...

Irene Nemirovsky   Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond...

Charles Glass What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian...

Mark Urban When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had...

Paulina SimonsTatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest...

John Updike From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century—and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit “A chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel...

Vera BrittainFor nearly a decade I have wanted; with a growing sense of urgency; to write something which would show what the whole War and post-war period — roughly; from...

Dr Erica MillerDr. Erica Miller is a Holocaust survivor. Born in Romania, she and her family were imprisoned in a Nazi holding camp for four years. Before coming to the...

Senior Master Sergeant Jack Brehm and Pete NelsonImagine jumping out of an aeroplane at 40, 000 feet, accelerating through the air until you reach terminal velocity at 127 mph, then...