Time In Russia

The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian oligarchs that Booklist called “one more example...

In 1913, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra led the nation in celebrating three hundred years of Romanov rule in Russia. Four years later, it was all over. Tsar Nicholas always considered himself to be unlucky, but he compounded his genuine misfortunes by making catastrophic calculations in defiance of at least three of the best chief ministers any sovereign has ever had – Sergei Witte, Pyotr Stolypin and Vladimir Kokovtsov. His biggest mistake of all was to mobilize the Russian army on the German border in 1914, thus provoking Germany into a declaration of war. After three years of ...

“Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!”—Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List “A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come.” —Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an “insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating” (Daily Express) book on today’s new space race and the geopolitics of space—including the increasingly tense power struggle...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in...

New York Times bestseller The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national...

"America First" Alters Israel, Iran, NATO, and Russia's Path to Armageddon What if America's absence from the battles of Ezekiel 38 and Armageddon isn't an accident — but a fulfillment of prophecy happening right now? Gas prices climbing. Iran's Strait of Hormuz blockade rattling global oil markets. U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear program making headlines. And a president reshaping America's role in the world under a bold new doctrine: "America First." If you've felt a growing unease about where all this is heading, you're not alone. The questions keeping Americans up at night:...

The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination ‘A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carré couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not paying attention.’ Oliver Bullough They thought they had found...

In 1999's Everyday Stalinism, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick rejects the common practice of simplistically treating the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens. She takes advantage of vast archives that were released after the Cold War to examine Soviet society "from below" - looking at how ordinary citizens coped with shortages and the general sense of fear created by the state.

CBA BESTSELLER Ancient Prophecies Unveil the Mystery of Earth’s Last Days Deception has infiltrated every area of our society, from the daily headlines to the family dinner table. We were warned that this day would come—marking the generation that would witness the end of world as we...

A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more important In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or...

A history of Europe unlike any other: perfect for fans of A History of the World in 47 Borders and Prisoners of Geography. 'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, co-host of The Rest Is History podcast Europe's internal borders have...

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon* Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum; David Suchet's News Sachet) as they debrief time traveller and bon vivant from the late 21st...

With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on Earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all 11 time zones. 

'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century...

Unraveling the Tangled Web of Trump's Global Corruption In the third volume of his Proof series, New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson takes readers on a deep dive into the Ukraine scandal, revealing it to be more sinister, complex, and transnational than previously thought...

Stockholm 1975. Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as prisoners in West Germany be released immediately. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others, including...

He crowned himself Tsar. He expanded Russia into empire. He unleashed political terror on a scale never before seen in Muscovy. Ivan IV, known to history as Ivan the Terrible, transformed Russia from a fragmented medieval principality into a centralised autocracy. He conquered Kazan and Astrakhan, extended Russian power eastward, and strengthened the authority of the throne. But he also divided his own realm, created the Oprichnina, institutionalised fear, and destroyed trust within the political class. His reign fused sacred monarchy with systematic repression. In Ivan the Terrible: ...

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the...