History: specific events & topics

The Cultural Revolution. ..More

The book describes the history of the development of the Naxalite movement, from its origins in the split of the communist movement in India to the death of Charu Mazumdar-the founder of the Naxalite movement-in 1972.. ..More

On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bed-ridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh and his crimes had been to flirt with Communism and nationalise his country's oil industry, for forty years in British hands. To Winston Churchill, the Iranian prime minister was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Dwight Eisenhower, he was delivering Iran to the Soviets. Mossadegh must go. And so he did, in one. ..More

Anne Frank wrote a diary from the age of 13 as she hid for over two years in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse escaping the horrors of Nazi occupation. An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, it is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century, famed throughout the world. Since first publication in 1947, the diary has been read by tens of millions of people in many different translations. A bestseller in its 1952 and 1997 (defi. ..More

Lost Paradise. ..More

Ben-Gurion. ..More

Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion. ..More

Revolt in the Desert. ..More

The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book.. ..More

From ancient volcanos and deserts to long-forgotten seas, a spotter's guide to the Britain beneath your feet. ..More