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Laurence Rees

Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. 
 
During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and documentary-maker Laurence Rees met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and World War 2 received enormous praise. 
 
At the heart of the book lies compelling eyewitness accounts of life under Adolf Hitler, spoken through the words of those who experienced the Nazi regime at every level of society. An extensive new section on the Nazi/Soviet war (previously published in Rees' War of the Century) provides a chilling insight into Nazi mentality during the most bloody conflict in history. 
 
Described as one of the greatest documentary series of all times The Nazis - A Warning from History won a host of awards, including a BAFTA and an International Documentary Award.

The Nazis

A Warning From History

Richard Holmes

Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career. Much has been written about Churchills role as British prime minister during the crisis years of the Second World War, but in this book Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his troubled schooldays, his flamboyant politician father, Randolph, and his famously attractive American mother, Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The same recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War arguably cost thousands of Allied lives during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, and may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942.    'In the Footsteps of Churchill' takes us on an exhilarating journey through Harrow School, the North-West Frontier, the Sudan, South Africa, 10 Downing Street and his beloved Chartwell; a journey that begins in the aristocratic splendour of Blenheim Palace and ends in the quiet of a country churchyard not far away  the compass of an extraordinary life in a few Oxfordshire acres.        'Richard Holmes provides a truly fresh interpretation of the great man  Holmess mature and wise portrait is studded with facts about the period and episodes in Churchills life that amuse, engage and entice. The authors eye for the telling detail, as well as his deep immersion in all the relevant archives, raises this book far above the common ruck of Churchilliana.  Andrew Roberts    This supremely skilful military historian   achieves a freshness of approach that makes Churchill hard to put down.  Max Hastings, Mail on Sunday

In the Footsteps of Churchill

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 
 
'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTS 
 
In this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed. 
 
Auschwitz examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers, and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Drawing on Rees's landmark documentary and material from the Russian archives, which challenged many previously accepted arguments, this book reveals significant and disturbing facts - from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp. 
 
This is the story of murder, brutality, courage, escape and survival, and a powerful account of how human tragedy of such immense scale could have happened.

Auschwitz

Gabriel Gatehouse

‘A grand and somewhat terrifying narrative of misfits, misinformation and manipulation’ - The Guardian‘A magnificent storyteller’ - The Telegraph‘Gabriel goes down our dark American rabbit hole armed with nothing but his very British charm. He comes out with a story that is revelatory, scary, and brilliantly told.’ - Jon Stewart 
Is this how democracy dies? 
 
The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse’s brilliant exploration of how conspiracy theories became weaponised and used as wrecking balls to the liberal world order. As Donald Trump lays siege to the institutions of the American state, Gatehouse traces the roots of a radical new political movement. Winding his way from the early years of the Clinton administration into the murky depths of the 6 January storming of the US Capitol and beyond, The Coming Storm reveals a loose alliance of tech bros, internet trolls and white supremacists preparing the ground for a period of epochal change. Behind the chaos and the bombast, at the nexus of politics and new technology, democracy is becoming a thing of the past. On the cusp of a new era, Gatehouse peers into our imminent future, where a group of Silicon Valley titans have hijacked power, even reality itself.

The Coming Storm

Inside America’s Radical New Politics of Paranoia

A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine

Peter Molloy

There was life before the fall. 
 
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. 
 
From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight.

Bloc Life

Stories from the Lost World of Communism

Jon Sopel

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... 
 
 
'26 February, White House Briefing Room 
The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend this whole election...' 
 
In UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others, BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel presents a diary of an election like we've never quite seen before. 
 
Experience life as a reporter on the campaign trail, as the election heats up and a global pandemic slowly sweeps in. As American lives are lost at a devastating rate, the presidential race becomes a battle for the very soul of the nation - challenging not just the Trump presidency, but the very institutions of American democracy itself. 
In this highly personal account of reporting on America in 2020, Jon Sopel takes you behind the scenes of a White House in crisis and an election in turmoil, expertly laying bare the real story of the presidential campaign in a panoramic account of an election and a year like no other.

UnPresidented

Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others

Martin Sixsmith

Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad. 
 
Combining in-depth research and interviews with his personal experiences as a former BBC Moscow correspondent, Sixsmith skilfully traces the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past, and explains the nation's seemingly split personality as the result of influences that have divided it for centuries. 
 
A Sunday Times bestseller, Russia is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the complex political landscape of this country, and its unique place in the modern world.

Russia

A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

Amol Rajan

After darkness, there is always light 
 
In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each contribution explores a different aspect of public and private life that can be re-examined - from Pope Francis on poverty and the Dalai Lama on the role of ancient wisdom to Brenda Hale on the courts and Tara Westover on the education divide; from Elif Shafak on uncertainty and Steven Pinker on Human Nature to Xine Yao on masks and Jarvis Cocker on environmental revolution. Collectively, they offer a roadmap for positive change after a year of unprecedented hardship. 
 
Based on the hit BBC podcast, and with introductions by presenter and journalist Amol Rajan, Rethink gives us the opportunity to consider what a better world might look like and reaffirms that after darkness there is always light. 
 
RETHINK List of contributors 
 
WHO WE ARE 
Carlo Rovelli - Rethinking Humanity 
Pope Francis - Rethinking Poverty 
Peter Hennessy - Rethinking Democracy 
Anand Giridharadas - Rethinking Capitalism 
Jared Diamond - Rethinking a Global Response 
Ziauddin Sardar - Rethinking Normality 
The Dalai Lama - Rethinking Ancient Wisdom 
C.K. Lal - Rethinking Institutions 
Jarvis Cocker - Rethinking an Environmental Revolution 
Clare Chambers - Rethinking the Body 
Steven Pinker - Rethinking Human Nature 
Tom Rivett-Carnac - Rethinking History 
Jonathan Sumption - Rethinking the State 
 
WHAT WE DO 
David Skelton - Rethinking Industry 
Emma Griffin - Rethinking Work 
Caleb Femi - Rethinking Education 
Gina McCarthy - Rethinking Activism 
Tara Westover - Rethinking the Education Divide 
Kwame Anthony Appiah - Rethinking the Power of Small Actions 
Charlotte Lydia Riley - Rethinking Universities 
K.K. Shailaja - Rethinking Development 
Samantha Power - Rethinking Global Governance 
KT Tunstall - Rethinking the Music Industry 
Rebecca Adlington - Rethinking the Athlete's Life 
Brenda Hale - Rethinking the Courts 
Nisha Katona - Rethinking Hospitality 
Katherine Granger - Rethinking the Olympics 
David Graeber - Rethinking Jobs 
James Harding - Rethinking News 
Carolyn McCall Rethinking Television 
 
HOW WE FEEL 
Mohammad Hanif - Rethinking Intimacy 
H.R. McMaster - Rethinking Empathy 
Carol Cooper - Rethinking Racial Equality 
Paul Krugman - Rethinking Solidarity 
Amonge Sinxoto - Rethinking Safety 
Reed Hastings - Rethinking Togetherness 
Kang Kyung-wha - Rethinking Accountability 
Lucy Jones - Rethinking Biophilia 
Colin Jackson - Rethinking Our Responsibility for Our Health 
Mirabelle Morah - Rethinking Ourselves 
Nicci Gerrard - Rethinking Old Age 
Brian Eno - Rethinking the Winners 
Jude Browne - Rethinking Responsibility 
Elif Shafak Rethinking Uncertainty 
 
HOW WE LIVE 
Amanda Levete - Rethinking How We Live 
Niall Ferguson - Rethinking Progress 
David Wallace-Wells - Rethinking Consensus 
Margaret MacMillan - Rethinking International Cooperation 
HRH The Prince of Wales - Rethinking Nature 
Onora O'Neill - Rethinking Digital Power 
Matthew Walker - Rethinking Sleep 
Henry Dimbleby - Rethinking How We Eat 
Eliza Manningham-Buller - Rethinking Health Inequality 
Pascal Soriot - Rethinking Medical Co-operation 
Xine Yao - Rethinking Masks 
George Soros - Rethinking Debt 
Mariana Mazzucato - Rethinking Value 
Douglas Alexander - Rethinking Economic Dignity 
 
WHERE WE GO 
Peter Frankopan - Rethinking Asia 
Stuart Russell - Rethinking AI 
DeRay McKesson - Rethinking the Impossible 
V.S. Ramachandran - Rethinking Brains 
Seb Emina - Rethinking Travel 
Aaron Bastani - Rethinking an Aging Population 
Rana Foroohar - Rethinking Data 
Anthony Townsend - Rethinking Robots

Rethink

How We Can Make a Better World

Welcome to the White House. 
 
At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather systems are moving at warp speed. The one thing absent from the weather forecast is the tranquil eye of the storm. That we never see. 
 
In A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House, BBC North America Editor, Jon Sopel, takes you inside Trump’s West Wing and explores the impact this presidency has had on the most iconic of American institutions. Each chapter starts inside a famous Washington room, uncovering its history and its new resonance in the Trump era. 
 
You are invited to step inside the Oval Office where Trump called for loyalty from FBI Director James Comey, and experience life as a reporter in the Briefing Room, where the tense relationship between the media and the President is played out. Guiding you through these rooms, Jon reveals the inner workings of the Trump White House and details the key moments and conversations that have unfolded within its walls. 
 
From Kim Jong-un and Kavanaugh to Merkel and the Mueller Inquiry - this is your insider guide to the Washington Circus. Roll up, roll up ...

A Year At The Circus

Inside Trump's White House

Bridget Kendall

The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West. 
 
In this meticulously researched account, Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand. Alongside in-depth analysis that explains the historical and political context, the book draws on exclusive interviews with individuals who lived through the conflict's key events, offering a variety of perspectives that reveal how the Cold War was experienced by ordinary people. From pilots making food drops during the Berlin Blockade and Japanese fishermen affected by H-bomb testing to families fleeing the Korean War and children whose parents were victims of McCarthy's Red Scare, The Cold War covers the full geographical and historical reach of the conflict. 
 
The Cold War is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the tensions of the last century have shaped the modern world, and what it was like to live through them.

The Cold War

A New Oral History

A New Oral History of Life Between East and West

'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’ 
 
‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson 
‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis 
 
**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power** 
 
As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the time it’s taken for a reality star to go from laughing stock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as ‘a beauty’ by none other than Donald Trump. 
 
Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship. But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine. It is fearful, angry and impatient for change. 
 
In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon Sopel sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams, but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs.

If Only They Didn't Speak English

Notes From Trump's America

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