On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War
JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO.
Diplomacy
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
‘A brilliant book’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics
‘The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping’ Catherine Belton
‘A brilliant, engagingly written and timely book’ Owen Matthews
‘A very good book’ Mark Galeotti
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
Best Books of 2024, The Economist
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES
‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.
In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister
‘Sensational … One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published … As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s’ DAILY MAIL
The Sunday Times bestseller
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans – A Story of Love and War
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II.
Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor during Trump’s administration, a bold assessment of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges of our age.
War on Peace: The Decline of American Influence
A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow.
‘This is one of the most important books of our time.’ Walter Isaacson
‘A masterpiece’ Dan Simpson, Post-Gazette
THE NEW YORK TIMES #3 BESTSELLER
Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
‘Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person “rise and fall” … Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree … There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin forces of Boris and Donald, and how they’ve shaped politics – and his life’ Guardian
The Education of an Idealist
‘Her highly personal and reflective memoir … is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world’ Barack Obama
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:The New York Times • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Times Literary Supplement
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.