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Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-Day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness.

A collection of spy stories combining fact and fiction to thrilling effect, featuring work by John le Carre, Ian Fleming, Joseph Conrad and many more.

The newly independent MP for Birkenhead accounts for his decision to resign from his position as the Labour Party whip in summer 2018. Negative about the current Labour leadership, proposing alternative ways of operating.

Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener is most famous today as the face of the poster that led country's recruitment drive during the early part of the First World War. But in recent years, with the recent release of records by the government, it has been the nature of his death that has stirred up passions long forgotten. At the beginning of the campaign he had been appointed the Secretary of State for War by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. A contro...

These tales from before the maximum wage for footballers' abolition in 1961 present an era in which the players experienced the threat of penury as urgently as their fans - occupying public transport and terraced streets together, and struggling for a fair wage as disproportionate sums went instead to the FA.

An account of Barbara Hosking's journey from origins as a Cornish scholarship recipient bewildered by how her sexuality clashed with a less enlightened time, to working as a press officer for Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, raising the position of women in public life.

The enduringly popular 2016 presidential election candidate Bernie Sanders affirms the need for progressive revolution and resistance against the reactionary Trump administration, outlining a core set of grassroots progressive values. STOP PRESS JANUARY 2019

The life of "Daily Express" runner, wartime aircraft production overseer and friend/enemy to the great and the good Max Beaverbrook is considered in relation to the pivotal events of the first half of the twentieth century.

Charts the scandals and controversies that ended political careers, taking stock of those who jumped and those who were pushed, exploring both humiliating surrenders and principled departures.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

The ambassador to South Africa and the US who was referred to as Thatcher's favourite diplomat tells stories from his occupational experience, drawing from his work with Thatcher and also his time working with George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton.

The events of the forty-hour week strike in Glasgow in the January of 1919 are reflected on as crucial episodes in other historical trajectories. Author of "Jimmy Reid".

The authors argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fueled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of the future.

The history and future of the British civil service are explored in this storied look at the institution's developing culture from forty-year civil servant Coolican.

The definitive work on the Wild West's greatest and most infamous shootout.

Former BBC reporter looks at the liberal bias of the BBC, presenting for instance the Trump presidency and Brexit in a manner coloured by an ideological leaning against these.

Biteback Publishing is delighted to announce a major new project, a two volume series of biographies of every female MP ever to be elected to the House of Commons.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports

An argument that the Labour Party's British aspect and relationship with national identity need to be re-evaluated. Important in relation to Scottish independence debates and post-Brexit analysis.