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In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was ...
Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades ...
Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell.
Dotted throughout this remote land ...
The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature ...
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most ...
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.
The fascinating true story behind HBO's ...
One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to ...
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people ...
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined ...
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of ...
From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its ...
Stalin's life is one of the most extraordinary of the modern era and Stephen Kotkin's new biography is the first to do full ...
