He was the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Solomon, a pioneer of African...

A memoir that combines political commentary with personal and national history.

Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized infl...

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the poorly equipped and organised resistance g...

The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains s...

During Admiral Thomas Cochrane’s demolition of imperial Spain’s naval presence in the Pacific dur...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian ...

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and mi...

In the general mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little k...

In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer S...

The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second Worl...

As a young army officer in 1971, Aziz BineBine was imprisoned after being unwittingly involved in...