Bloomsbury Press imprint: 136 books
The Love-charm of Bombs
Restless Lives in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
'The nightly routine of sirens, barrage, the probing raider, the unmistakable engine ... the bomb-bursts moving nearer and then moving away, hold one like a love-charm' --Graham Greene
When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a strange kind...
The Bill of the Century
The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically...
by Dale Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to
protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,
finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to
rescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save an
unrelated infant...
The Moro War
How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the post-9/11 war against terrorists is not the first time the United States has battled such ferocious foes. The forgotten Moro War, lasting from 1902...
The Double V
How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years...
Exorcising Hitler
The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly
unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen
hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany.
The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. The
German people stood at the brink...
Gospel of Freedom
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested....
The New Middle East
The World After the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
BBC bureau chief Paul Danahar sets out the new order in the Middle East following the Arab Spring, and explains what it will mean both for the region and the West.
For the past forty years the story of the Middle East has been simple. The news images flashing across our TV screens from the Middle...
The Tragedy of Liberation
A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine.
"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution...
The Cultural Revolution
A People's History, 1962—1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging...
Crisis Point
Why We Must – and How We Can – Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
With a new afterword on the 2016 election
Trent Lott and Tom Daschle, two of the most prominent senators of recent time, served as leaders of their respective parties from the 1990s to the current century. Their congressional tenure saw the Reagan tax cuts, the Clinton impeachment, 9/11, and...
The Union of Their Dreams
Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable: dignity and contracts for farm workers. Four decades later, Cesar Chavez's likeness graces postage stamps, and dozens of schools and...
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower.
"I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire*."* Winston Churchill's famous statement...
The Secret Sentry
The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In February of 2006, Matthew Aid's discovery of a massive secret historical document reclassification program then taking place at the National Archives made the front page of the New York Times. This discovery is only the tip of the iceberg of Aid's more than twenty years of intensive research, culled...