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Demokratin har aldrig varit en självklarhet. Ständigt har den omtolkats och omprövats. Som den här boken visar är dess historia full av nystarter och krisstämningar, heroiska insat ...

När Sovjetunionen föll samman 1991 behövde KGB-mannen Vladimir Putin en ny karriär. Han fann den i St Petersburg, där han blev borgmästarens högra hand och gav sig in i en rad lukr ...

"En mycket upplysande bok... starkast intryck gör Krakowskis informanters bottenlösa ensamhet." Nina Solomin, FokusIncel är ett begrepp som skrämmer och som ofta förknippas med kvi ...

I december 2010 tände grönsakshandlaren Mohammed Bouazizi eld på sig själv i protest mot den tunisiska regimen. Det blev starten för vad som snart kom att kallas för den arabiska v ...

Världens mest slutna land är en fascinerande gåta. För västerlänningar är en resa till Nordkorea en fjäder i hatten, men diktaturen drar också nytta av de välbeställda äventyrarna. ...

När du en gång väl har stirrat döden i vitögat så börjar du därefter att rensa bort livets icke väsentliga saker. Du övervinner alla falska påståenden som man lurar i sig själv, på ...

This book pays tribute to the quite remarkable bravery of those young men who risked, and all too often lost, their lives for their country during the war. The author, himself a di ...

Horatio Nelson's first captain was William Locker who recognised the exceptional talents of the young midshipman who was to become the most famous sailor in history. Thirty-seven y ...

This book examines every aspect of The Royal Air Force, including organisation, statistics and operations during World War Two.

Every member of the armed forces who took part in the Falklands Campaign of 1982 can claim that his particular role was unique in that it was experienced by himself alone. But in ...

The number 1 best book about spies in Britain. As listed by Dame Stelle Rimington Ex-Director-General of M.I.5.The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spie ...

On 9 May 1915 the British First Army under Haig and the French Tenth Army launched a joint offensive against the Germans on the Western Front. The British attempt to capture Aubers ...

This tells the story of a soldier caught before the evacuation at Dunkirk, and his daring escape and life along the way.

When the First World War started in 1914 the potential of the submarine as a tactical weapon was largely a matter of conjecture.

The Doomed Expedition tells the story of the counter against the German invasion of Norway and its failings.

In the summer of 1942 a Wellington bomber, operating with 115 Squadron from Marham in Norfolk was forced to ditch in the North Sea returning from a raid on Hamburg. Two members of ...

This book is about the Sudan Campaigns fought during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. This book covers the complete saga from 1883 – 1899.

Soldiers and journalists alike wasted no time in telling the story of the campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian invasion in April, 1982. Almost without ...

Demokrati är ett honnörsord i politiken. Men det kan eka skrämmande tomt när kriserna staplas på varandra, och ovissheten om framtiden känns övermäktig. I tio korta kapitel ger fö ...

Dramatiskt & personligt om att leva mitt i klimatförändringarna »Line Nagell Ylvisåker skriver en temperamentsfull litterär sakprosa, med inslag av överraskande, slående och poetis ...

I 12 livsregler inspirerade psykologiprofessorn Jordan B. Peterson miljontals människor världen över att skapa ordning i en kaotisk tillvaro. I denna djärva uppföljare levererar Pe ...

This is the story of a fighting force. In the words of the marines themselves, Robin Neillands, formerly of 45 Commando RM, describes what it is really like to wear the legendary g ...

The 1994 crash of Chinook with top Northern Ireland intelligence experts on board into the Mull of Kintyre has remained the source of intense speculation ever since. The book is no ...

Winston Churchill enjoyed two stints as First Lord of the Admiralty, at the start of the First World War and at the start of the Second. He retained close interest in naval matters ...

Formed in 1935, First U-Boat Flotilla operated against Hitler's enemies from the very earliest stage of the war through to September 1944 when disbanded amid the flames of Brest du ...