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When does war end and slaughter begin That is the question that drives this compelling re examination of the Allied aerial bombing campaign and the suffering of German civilians during World War II During the Second World War American and British air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany destroying some sixty cities killing more than half a million German citizens and leaving eighty thousand aircrew dead For decades observers have minimised the difference between the two campaigns according equal responsibility to the Americans and the British In this controversial study acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that painting the American and British campaigns with the same broad brush is both unfair and historically inaccurate The terrible truth is that most of the British bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of Allied military leadership leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and prolonging the war By contrast American precision bombing almost brought the Germans to their knees Throughout the war the US campaign was infused with a particularly American fusion of determination optimism and morality and played an integral and largely unrecognised role in securing Allied victory in

In the great revolutionary year of 1968 Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties and he was restless While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world Westminster politics seemed stuck It was time he decided for a different approach Over the next half century the radicalized Benn helped forge a new left in Britain He was joined by four other politicians who would become comrades collaborators and rivals Ken Livingstone John McDonnell Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn For Andy Beckett the story of these admired and loathed political explorers both their sudden breakthroughs and long stretches in the wilderness is the untold story of British politics in modern times As he reveals their project to create a radically more equal liberal and democratic Britain has been much more influential than electoral history might suggest and can be seen from the shape of our city life to the causes of our culture wars For their many detractors this influence was and remains dangerous a form of extremism that must be stamped out But as these five searchers believed in politics there is no total victory nor total defeat

The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the Year An entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics and the pivotal moments that got us where we are now From Steve Richards broadcaster journalist and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had Through wonderful vignettes Richards offers a masterful clear eyed and above all entertaining history of British politics Will Hutton Every few weeks in British politics a columnist will reach for the word unprecedented as a cabinet minister resigns or yet another inquiry is called In this magisterial history respected broadcaster and journalist Steve Richards puts the chaos into context Blending anecdote and analysis Richards takes a step back to explore ten critical moments that have shaped modern Britain from the Suez Crisis of 1956 to the Covid 19 pandemic from 1945 to Thatcher Richards argues that it is only with distance that we can perceive the tectonic plates shifting and events that may seem earth shattering in the moment might be a passing tremor with the perspective of history A must read for anyone seeking to understand our nation this landmark work is enlightening and entertaining in equal measure Steve Richards is one of the shrewdest political commentators

From battlefields cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes from the Lancastrians and Yorkists to the Roundheads Royalists and an abundance of kings called Edward and Henry the history of our island nation unravels its rich tapestry beneath our very feet if only you know where to look Take for instance the Tower of London which housed a royal menagerie featuring lions an African elephant and even a polar bear some three hundred years before it bore witness to Anne Boleyn s final jest with her executioner Or the Liverpool Docks which in the 19th century handled a whopping 9 of global trade Or indeed the atomic weapons base at Orford Ness which was used to secretly test nuclear weapons during the most heated periods of the Cold War You do not have to travel far for English history to spring into rich and vivid life In their Story of England historian Dan Snow and the History Hit team take us on a journey through thousands of years of unceasing drama It s a tale of invaders and immigrants and visitors and what they brought here It s a tale of how our ancestors overcame co operated and shaped this country to their liking affecting our landscape our character our language industries laws religions and settlements with ea

From Jon Sopel bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents comes an incisive examination of post Brexit Britain and what it means for our future I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too JOE LYCETT A thrilling nerve wracking book You couldn t make the last ten years up thanks to Jon Sopel you don t have to PETER FRANKOPAN A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster ARMANDO IANNUCCI Acute and unflinching Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic MISHAL HUSAINReturning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting or maybe discombobulating would be a better word It is after all my home it is where I grew up a country I love and am proud of But either it s changed or I have Maybe both It just feels like a strange land After eight years of political reporting in the US Jon Sopel returned home to the UK to find a very different place than the one he left In his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents Jon explores what has happened to the country he once knew Either Britain has changed dramatically or he has Perhaps it s both As a second Trump administration be

It should become a standard work on this campaign Telegraph James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign John C McManus A heart pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome This is history at its finest James M Scott Pulitzer Prize finalist Holland writes with eloquence and power about the harsh realities of a brutal battle that grabbed the world s attention and helped to decide the future of Italy Professor Michael S Neiberg There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion and with the Italian surrender the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943 And yet it didn t happen Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War By the start of 1944 the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line a formidable barrier of wire minefields bunkers and booby traps woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer

A dazzling chronicle a bracing challenge to modernity s smug assumptions Bryce Christensen Booklist O what a world of profit and delight Of power of honour and omnipotence Is promised to the studious artisan Christopher Marlowe Dr Faustus Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment Europe changed out of all recognition Particularly transformative was the ardent quest for knowledge and the astounding discoveries and inventions which resulted from it The movement of blood round the body the movement of the earth round the sun the velocity of falling objects and indeed why objects fall these and numerous other mysteries had been solved by scholars in earnest pursuit of scientia This fascinating account of the profound changes undergone by Europe between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will cover ground including folk religion and its pagan past Catholicism and its saintly dogma alchemy astrology and natural philosophy Islamic and Jewish traditions and the discovery of new countries and cultures By the mid seventeenth century science mania had set in the quest for knowledge had become a pursuit of cultured gentlemen In 1663 The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge received its charter Three years later the F

During the Second World War it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary in the middle of winter in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbour Yet this is precisely what happened in 1942 The man who gave the go ahead for the audacious commando raid Lord Louis Mountbatten head of Combined Operations fully anticipated that all ten men would die in the attempt Mountbatten wasn t far wrong two ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling them out of the submarine two drowned when their canoes capsized entering the Gironde estuary and a further six were captured by the Germans and later executed By complete chance the two canoeists who managed to escape Major Blondie Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks stumbled into the arms of the French resistance Once in their care Hasler and Sparks made their way across France and into Spain crossing the Pyrenees in the company though they did not know it of a Gestapo agent intent on bringing down the resistance network Operation Suicide will be the first account of this enthralling raid for over fifty year

There s a sea lover in every Brit The Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 has been keeping people in tune with the gloriously fickle British weather for a century and capturing our hearts and imaginations along the way Celebrating a hundred years since the first broadcast this book takes you to the heart of what the Shipping Forecast means to us as a nation Each of the ten chapters brings you on a fascinating exploration of a different area of our British maritime history from stormy weather up above to the seabed far below and from fishing boats and battleships to the songs and poems inspired by the forecast This joyous book invites you to sail away into the enchanting world of the forecast and is the perfect companion for anyone curious about our great British skies and seas

In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived off the land in one way or another In Ireland however almost everyone lived on the land as well Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north east of the country Land was vital But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant English and often aristocratic landlords The dream of having more control over their farms even of owning them drove many of the most explosive conflicts in Irish history Rebellions against British rule were rare but savage outbreaks of murder related to resentments over land ownership and draconian state repression were a regular feature of Irish rural life The struggle for the land was also crucial in driving support for Irish nationalist demands for Home Rule and independence In this epic narrative Myles Dungan examines two hundred years of agrarian conflict from the ruinous famine of 1741 to the eve of World War Two It explores the pivotal moments that shaped Irish history the rise of moonlighting the infamous Whiteboys and Rightboys the insurrection of Captain Rock the Tithe War of 1831 36 the Great Famine of 1845 that devastated the country and drastically reduced the Irish population and the Lan

Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail his book on D Day is sure to impress a vast audience Dan Snow Stephen Fisher is a very rare beast a man who can bring stunning research and scholarship hand in glove with the gifts of a fine storyteller James Holland Written with verve and panache I can almost hear the splash of waves against the LCTs the whine of bullets overhead feel the concussive thud of shells and mortars and experience the rush of sweat fear and adrenaline as Fisher describes the opening battle in Normandy on that day of all days D Day on Sword Beach It s a brilliant evocation of one of the greatest days in history and Fisher has done it proud Bravo Robert Lyman author of Victory to Defeat The British Army 1918 1940 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history D Day The landings on the five Normandy beaches Utah Omaha Gold Juno and Sword will go down in legend as the first footsteps on the journey to end the war in northern Europe While much has been written about the operation as a whole little detailed attention has been paid to the battle for Sword Beach itself the easternmost of the amphibious attack ar

Who became Britain s first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721 When was Karl Marx born Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses When did Big Ben first bong When did the first British woman cast her vote Clue It wasn t 1918 Find the answers to these questions and many more in this landmark political history From the first meeting of an elected English parliament on 20 January 1265 to the tabling of the Bill of Rights on 13 February 1689 from the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819 to Britain voting to leave the EU on 23 June 2016 there is a growing thirst for knowledge about the history of our constitutional settlement our party system and how our parliamentary democracy has developed Writing as an observer of political history but also as someone with an opinion acclaimed political broadcaster Iain Dale charts the main events of the last few hundred years with one event per page per day The indefatigable Iain Dale always cuts to the nub of politics Adam Boulton

A brilliant exploration of Cyprus s long history of cultural resilience Superbly composed Guardian Poetic Compelling New Statesman One of National Geographic s Summer Reads 2024 Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures at the crossroads of the British Ottoman Byzantine Roman and Egyptian empires a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody conflict where the ancient olive trees of Homer s time exist alongside the undersea cables which link up the world s internet In Cypria British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply personal lyrical history of the island of Cyprus from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day This sprawling evocative and poetic book begins with the legend of the cyclops and the storytelling at the heart of the Mediterranean culture Christofi travels to salt lakes crusader castles mosques and the eerie town deserted at the start of the 1974 war He retells the particularly bloody history of Cyprus during the twentieth century and considers his own identity as traveler and returner as Odysseus was Written in sensitive witty and beautifully rendered prose with a n

The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons There is a depth of feeling about rural places the moors and lochs valleys and mountains cottages and country houses Yet the British countryside so integral to our national identity is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism In Our Island Stories historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results Through ten country walks with varied companions Fowler combines local and global history connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta Dolgellau to Virginia and Grasmere to Canton Empire transformed rural lives whether in Welsh sheep farms or Cornish copper mines it offered both opportunity and exploitation Fowler shows how the booming profits of overseas colonial activities directly contributed to enclosure land clearances and dispossession These histories usually considered separately continue to link the lives of their descendants now To give an honest account to offer both affection and criticism is a matter of respect we should not knowingly tell half a history This new knowledge of our island stories once gained can only deepen Britons relationship with their beloved landscape

An absorbing and eye opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us HELEN CASTOR Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter DAN JONESBetween 1199 and 13

It should become a standard work on this campaign Telegraph James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign John C McManus A heart pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome This is history at its finest James M Scott Pulitzer Prize finalist Holland writes with eloquence and power about the harsh realities of a brutal battle that grabbed the world s attention and helped to decide the future of Italy Professor Michael S Neiberg There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion and with the Italian surrender the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943 And yet it didn t happen Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War By the start of 1944 the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line a formidable barrier of wire minefields bunkers and booby traps woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer

A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell Ram packed with mind blowing facts hilarious characters and little known tales Dan Schreiber If you could take just one history book to a desert island this would be it Laugh out loud funny Pure joy Conn IgguldenAh Britain So special The greatest nation on earth some say And we did it all on our own Didn t we As it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans and for the past two centuries we have been ruled by Germans As Horrible Histories author Terry Deary argues nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make Elizabeth I would count as a minor royal without the Spanish Armada Without the Nazis Churchill would be remembered as an opposition windbag The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren t for the Roman Ninth LegionAnd after all every nation sometimes needs a bit of unifying Blitz spirit although in an ideal world we wouldn t have accidentally let Corporal Hitler go in the first place The British have a proud history of choosing their enemies from the Romans to the Germans You might even say those enemies made Britain what it