A cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age from the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR to the self-proclaimed ‘renaissance’ of nuclear power in 21st-century Russia.
The Reckoning tells the detailed and engrossing account of the fighting in Ukraine in 1944, making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers involved in the fighting, as well as partisans behind the German lines, to bring the story to life.
From the daughter of one of America’s most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace’s legacy of hate--and illuminates her journey towards redemption.
In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history.
In the words of those who survived the sinking, this is the story of the Titanic 's
final hours, taken from the transcripts of the US and British inquiries, and
specially rearranged into chronological order to present the disaster
as a real-time narrative.
A timely and controversial examination of thirty years of diplomatic misunderstandings, roads not taken and mutual suspicion that resulted in the terrible tragedy of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine.
The true, untold story of Kim Philby, history’s most famous traitor, from Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Ben Macintyre, featuring an Afterword from John le Carré
