Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

For sale in CIS only! Nairobi's Eastleigh estate has undergone profound change over the past two decades. Previously a quiet residential zone, the arrival of vast numbers of Somali refugees catalysed its transformation into 'Little Mogadishu', a glo...

For sale in CIS only! Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history. Guinea is also exce...

For sale in CIS only! The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjold and his UN team crashed into dark...

For sale in CIS only! Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in n...

A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Co...

The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britains Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns wa...

For sale in CIS only! Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? "Bridge Over Blood River's" haunting and subversive evocation of South Afr...

For sale in CIS only! The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to...

For sale in CIS only! Amid the turbulence of the Arab Spring, the revolutionary uprising that played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square created high expectations before dashing many of its participants' hopes. The unpredictable events and rapid upheaval t...