Children of the Night
£25.00A darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.
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Twilight of Democracy
£12.99In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually – as this book compellingly relates – the relationships soured too. Anne Applebaum traces a familiar history in an unfamiliar way, looking at the trajectories of individuals caught up in the public events of the last three decades. When politics become polarized, which side do you back? If you are a journalist, an intellectual, a civic leader, how do you deal with the re-emergence of authoritarian or nationalist ideas in your country?
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Fascism: A Warning
£10.99The #1 NYT BESTSELLER
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state.
“There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred review
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Gulag Archipelago
£14.99A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn’s own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author’s wish and with his full co-operation.
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Stalin Vol II
£16.99Like its predecessor, this title offers nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin’s desk. It is also, like the previous volume, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer’s art. Kotkin’s portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.
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Stalin Vol II
£35.00Like its predecessor, this title offers nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin’s desk. It is also, like the previous volume, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer’s art. Kotkin’s portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
£14.99Hannah Arendt’s chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.
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Twenty Lessons
£9.99History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the 20th century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and established rule by an elite with a monopoly on truth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the 20th century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so.
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The Return
£9.99Hisham Matar was 19 when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. 22 years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was finally able to return to his homeland for the first time. In this heart-breaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again. ‘The Return’ is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale of loss. It is an exquisite meditation on history, politics and art. It’s the story of what it is to be human.
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Return
£14.99Hisham Matar was 19 when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. 22 years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was finally able to return to his homeland for the first time. In this heart-breaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again. ‘The Return’ is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale of loss. It is an exquisite meditation on history, politics and art. It’s the story of what it is to be human.
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Gulag
£14.99This landmark book uncovers in detail one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.