National liberation and independence
Collins Classics – Burmese Days (Collins Classics)
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018
‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré
A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.
Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet
Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent émigrés, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare their own in this alien land.
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy’s House: Film tie-in edition
Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.
The Dream Shall Never Die
The inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics.
Congo
FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY
‘Not only deserves the description “epic”, in its true sense, but the term “masterpiece” as well’ Independent
Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire
The winner of the 2013 Longman-History Today Book Prize is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain’s retreat from empire.
Collins Classics – Selected Short Stories (Collins Classics)
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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War
Controversial and revisionist history of America’s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series – written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes.
National Trust History & Heritage – India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power (National Trust History & Heritage)
India Remembered’ is a scrapbook of private family photographs taken during this historical period (Edwina Mountbatten walking arm in arm with Nehru through a courtyard, or Gandhi taking tea for the first time at Viceroys House).