Manohar Malgonkar In the eerie silence of the Ragyabas monastery, nestled in the icy splendour of the Himalayas, a riveting drama unfolds. Fearing Chinese intrusion, the Head Lama of the...

Hein G Kiessling Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's...

Jeff Shesol "A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of RivalsBeginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda...

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown England may be a small country on a small island, but its inhabitants have always had a boundless curiosity about the world beyond their shoreline. From the nation's...

Barry Coward Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse...

Alastair Campbell The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 12,...

Stephen Birmingham Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)

Hasan Suroor (Editor) Where is India headed under Prime Minister Narendra Modi? What are the contours of the 'new' India he has promised to build? Is his promise of 'development'...

Ece Temelkuran An urgent and unsettling account of Turkey’s descent into tyranny, as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most gifted writers.Starting with the basic question "what is this...

Ezekiel Boone In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone’s “hair-raising” ( Parade ) Hatching series, the United States goes to war against the queen spiders that threaten to overtake...

John Keegan The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally...

Eric Ambler Syria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family’s Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager,...