Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour
Hsiao-Hung Pai
Fig Tree
You know the people in this book. You’ll remember the harassed waitress from your local Chinese restaurant. You’ve noticed those builders across the street working funny hours and without helmets. You’ve eaten
Descent into Chaos: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the threat to global security
Ahmed Rashid
Allen Lane
The war on terror is being lost – but not just in Iraq. As this devastating book shows, the real crisis zone now lies in central Asia. Veteran reporter Ahmed Rashid has
Fishing in Utopia: Sweden & The Future That Disappeared
Andrew Brown
Granta
Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a timber mill while helping to raise their small
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
William Heinemann
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an ‘age of forgetting’. Today’s world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
Owen Matthews
Bloomsbury
An unprecedented insight into the grim brutality of the Russian revolution and the terror of the Cold War. On a midsummer day in 1937, the young Commissar Boris Bibikov kissed his two
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Mark Thompson
Faber
The first narrative history in English of the Italian front: a major forgotten conflict of the First World War. In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize