Winston Churchill

One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written an illuminating, genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill that focuses solely on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire....

When Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, died in January 1924, Winston Churchill summed up his life aptly: "[The] worst misfortune [of the Russian people] was his birth....

The greatest questions of our future can be answered by twelve crucial moments in Britain's history....

Between 1939 and 1945, more than 70 Allied men and women were convicted - mostly in secret trials - of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. Hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for...Germany....

Winston Churchill never trusted Hitler. When France fell to the Nazis, Britain was alone in their fight against Germany....

Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war....

Alan Axelrod’s penetrating analysis will instruct, inspire, and encourage those who lead business enterprises, large and small....

After the second battle of El Alamein in November 1942, the tide of the war had begun inexorably to turn in favor of the Allies. Victory in World War II covers all fronts in detail as it charts the progress of the final years of World War II....

This magnificent volume offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe's most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman....

Take a journey of exploration through the eyes of some of the most memorable World War II heroes! Uncover the extraordinary story of courage, sacrifice, and valor that marked World War II.

This book is about Operation Falcon. This was a top-secret covert mission to capture Adolf Hitler while he was visiting the newly finished Wolf Lair, his secret, very secure, newly finished hideout....

Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour....

With Germany resurgent after the disasters inflicted on it by the Treaty of Versailles, the Munich Agreement offered an end to German ambitions. Ultimately, it failed to avert cataclysm....

Learn about the secret British agency that may have saved WWII....

Secrets, which are revealed in this unique collection of extraordinary stories. Written like a historical thriller, Slains Castle’s Secret History is a work of incredible historical fiction—everything within is set around real events.

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire....

A groundbreaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments....

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I....

Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....

What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word....