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Little Cyclone
The Girl who Started the Comet Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The exhilarating true story of the greatest escape route of the Second World War On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the consul. She presents him with a British soldier she has smuggled all the...
Go Spy the Land
Being the Adventures of IK8 of the British Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander Hill: a time of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies. The daring escapades of some of the first members of Britain's secret service are revealed in this...
Clement Attlee
The Inevitable Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Elected in a surprise landslide in 1945, Clement Attlee was the first ever Labour leader to command a majority government. At the helm for twenty years, he remains the longest-serving leader in the history of the Labour Party. When he was voted out in 1951, he left with Labour's highest share of the...
Rab Butler
The Best Prime Minister We Never Had?
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Despite his tenure of three of the four Great Offices of State, his popularity with the electorate and the truly revolutionary 1944 Education Act that bears his name, Richard Austen ‘Rab’ Butler narrowly missed out on the premiership on three separate occasions during his political career, earning...
Robin Butler
At the Heart of Power from Heath to Blair
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
With almost four decades of experience in the Civil Service, Robin Butler, Lord Butler of Brockwell, has been privy to a succession of parliamentary shake-ups and international policy crises.
During his remarkable career, Butler served as Private Secretary to Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and...
1956
The Year That Changed Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
1956: a defining year that heralded the modern era.Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union tanks rolled into Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev's 'secret speech' exposed the crimes of Stalin, and the Royal Court Theatre unveiled John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Rock 'n' roll music was replacing...
Capitalism
Money, Morals and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale....
Jane Austen
The Banker's Sister
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
When it was announced that Jane Austen would appear on the new £10 note in 2017, few were aware that a £10 Austen banknote already existed - issued by her favourite brother. Handsome, clever and enterprising, Henry Austen founded a bank business and charmed his way into the top rank of aristocratic...
They Fought Alone
The True Story of SOE's Agents in Wartime France
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Set Europe ablaze.' The order came from Churchill himself. The result was the Special Operations Executive - the SOE. Established in 1941 with the aim of supplying Occupied France with a steady stram of highly trained resistance agents, this clandestine Second World War network grew to become a cricual...
The Left's Jewish Problem
Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There is a sickness at the heart of left-wing British politics, and though predominantly below the surface, it is silently spreading, becoming ever more malignant.
With three separate inquiries into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in the first six months of 2016 alone, it seems hard to believe...
Architects of Death
The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation – forty-six of which were at Auschwitz.
In five years the gas chambers and...
by Duncan Brack
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
If you're a liberal or a democrat, and especially if you're a Liberal Democrat, this masterful and considered collection of thought-provoking quotations should belong to you. All the great Liberals are packed into this slick reference guide, from Gladstone to Ashdown, Kennedy (John F.) to Kennedy...
by Iain Dale
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
You'll need this thoughtful and entertaining assembly of conservative quotations if you're at all keen on politics. With more than 2,000 key quotes, this authoritative collection contains all the best conservatives and their sayings, whether they were standing up for what's right or standing up to...
The Myth of Meritocracy
Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly...