For sale in CIS only! The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, independence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing m...

For sale in CIS only! The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...

For sale in CIS only! The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can we ever truly understand such...

For sale in CIS only! Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and s...

For sale in CIS only! Indira Gandhi's last years in office as India's prime minister ran from January 1980 to her assassination in October 1984 but until now no book has been devoted to her final term. Among the principal themes discussed in this in...

For sale in CIS only! Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), "A Revolutionary History" delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and...

For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism – the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scen...

For sale in CIS only! State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions – headed by warlords – around the spoils of l...

For sale in CIS only! Dubbed an 'agent of British imperialism' by Joseph Stalin, Reginald Teague-Jones (1889-1988) was the quintessential English spy whose exceptional story is recounted in this new biography. He studied in St Petersburg, participat...

For sale in CIS only! Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in...