c 2000 to c 2009

An authoritative military history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building mission that followed. Historian Dr. Heather Stur describes the commitment of the division to Kuwait,...

Capturing first-hand accounts, this is a fresh, balanced perspective of the British military's role in Operation Telic in Iraq, which saw the largest UK troop deployment since World War II.

In 2002, with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, Nadia Wassef founded Diwan, a fiercely independent bookstore. They were three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Egypt. Culture was languishing under gov...

Queen Elizabeth II was Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This intimate, personal biography tells the story of her life, reign and times, from a perspective unlike any other. Gyles Brandreth writes the Queen's tale candidly with grace and sensitivity from the view of someone who met her, talked ...

Reinventing the rules for a smarter, happier life. 'Flex' is a creative, rebellious, badass way to live. It's about looking at routines (like the nine to five) and social norms (like women bearing the brunt of the 'emotional load' at home) and bending and re-shaping them. 'Flex' is looking within...

'Good As You' is the 30 year history of British gay culture - from the identification of the HIV virus in 1984, through Manchester's self-selection as Britain's gay capital, to Eastenders' Colin and Barry's first primetime televised gay kiss and the real-time romance of Elton John and David Furni...

From the author of the bestselling true-crime classic 'Fred & Rose', comes the astonishing inside story of the world's biggest cash robbery: the Tonbridge Securitas heist.

Drawing on half a century of travel and experience, 'Homelands' tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whol...

Drawing on half a century of travel and experience, 'Homelands' tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whol...

Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where the past was too terrible to speak of. Her parents, the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust, never shared the horrors they had suffered. So when Esther's mother makes an astonishing revelation about her father, Esther resolves to fo...