Trauma Bonds
A fascinating journalistic exploration into the impact of intergenerational trauma on the descendants of both survivors and perpetrators
Specific wars and campaigns
Life Is Rosi: Grandma, Me and Our Diaries at 23
A fresh, funny family history following the lives of comedian Jess Robinson and her German Jewish grandmother Rosi
Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two
WINSTON CHURCHILL called it ‘the worst journey in the world’. But was even this telling quote, describing the nightmarish torment experienced while transporting military aid to northern Russia during World War Two, an understatement?
Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-boat War 1939-45
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
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.
The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster
‘Very few people in parliament can match Nadhim’s childhood experience, his understanding of international affairs, his skills as a businessman and his passion for politics’ Rory Stewart
‘From Baghdad to number 11 Downing Street: in any other country it would be fiction. You have to read it to believe it’ Jeffrey Archer
Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle
‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose’ THE TIMES
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West
From the Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
‘The best single-volume history of the war ever written’ DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year
‘A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism’ Financial Times
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
Nineteen Steps
Love blooms in the darkest days…
Discover this heart-wrenching, life-affirming tale of first romance in the face of the tragic events of an often forgotten piece of WW2 history.