Autobiography: historical, political & military

The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

‘A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details’ THE TIMES

‘If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky’ TOM HOLLAND

‘An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR

Longlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize

Looking at Women, Looking at War

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE

WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD

‘This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism’ Philippa Gregory

Unleashed

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES

‘ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE’ ED BALLS

‘SENSATIONAL’ DAILY MAIL

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

A New Yorkerstaff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this “unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)

‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy.

What Does Jeremy Think?: Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain

The Sunday Times Bestseller

‘Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: “It wouldn’t have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.” … How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?’ Guardian

Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump

‘Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person “rise and fall” … Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree … There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin forces of Boris and Donald, and how they’ve shaped politics – and his life’ Guardian

Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love

A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.

2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE

2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory

In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence – the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution

‘Moving – at times almost unbearably so – and fascinating’ Antonia Fraser

A family’s story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people.

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight: text-only edition

This ebook does not include illustrations.

From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.

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