Revolutionary groups & movements

Resistance

A landmark work charting how acts of resistance have shaped Britain and the powerful role of photography as a catalyst for change, across the twentieth century, curated by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen.

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022

WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

Eleven years when Britain had no king.

The British Are Coming: The War for America 1775 -1777

‘To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing … A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America’s] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.’ New York Times

ISIS: The State of Terror

The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.

Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe

The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair’s breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.

Doves of War: Four Women of Spain

Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief – a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: ‘Passionate and deeply moving… when Preston writes about these women, you feel as if you are in their company.’ Scotland on Sunday

Lenin: A biography

‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s founder…’Sally Laird, Observer

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