Haus Publishing imprint: 173 books

by Denis MacShane
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

A short polemical appeal by Dennis MacShane (Minister for Europe 2005-2010) for policy-makers to re-engage with the Western Balkans before it is too late. Drawing on his experience as a Minister for the Balkans between 2001-2010, MacShane has written a vivid and forceful account, showing that the...

Consequences of the Peace

The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2015

by Alan Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

The Versailles Settlement, at the time of its creation a vital part of the Paris Peace Conference, suffers today from a poor reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have paved the way for a second major global conflict within a generation....
by Annabel Gillings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the outstanding entrepreneurial Victorian engineer. He helped construct the Thames Tunnel, build the Great Western Railway and its terminus, Paddington Station, but his boldest endeavours were three gigantic ships.
by Peter Hennessy, David Normington
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018

  Throughout Britain, Civil Servants are exposed to public scrutiny today in unprecedented ways. What does it mean that the political neutrality of the Civil Service has only been enshrined in law since 2010, nearly 150 years after it was first proposed? Why is it so important for politicians to...

Cornflower Blue

A Case for Milena Lukin

by Christian Schunemann
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

Based on true events, Cornflower Blue is a tense thriller that explores the troubled legacy of the Bosnian War.On the night of the eleventh of July, two elite Serbian soldiers are on sentry duty at the Topcider military camp. The next morning, they are found dead. A military court declares them victims...
by Alex Capus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

With brilliantly vivid irony, a mosaic of voices tells the true story of Switzerland's most notorious bank robbers: Kurt Sandweg and Waldemar Velte. As 1933 draws to a close, the pair arrive in Basel from Wuppertal, Germany. Rebels on the run, they are searching for an escape from the confines of...
by Max Landorff
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

A bestselling European psychological thriller set around the Italian lakes Gabriel Tretjak is a fixer, hired by rich clients to fix their lives, to change fate on their behalf. He does so without moral limitations or scruples. His methods draw on experimental psychology and the latest research into...
by Jad Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a leading suffragette and founder in 1903 of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was incensed by the refusal of the Independent Labour Party to admit women. In reaction she founded the all-female WSPU. Both Emmeline and her daughter Christabel were...

Seeking Provence

Old Myths, New Paths

by Nicholas Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008

A region steeped in fable and myth, Provence is a cultural crossroads of European history. A source of inspiration to artists, poets, and troubadours, it is now an enviable refuge for the wealthy and fashionable. Nicholas Woodsworth, who was born in Ottawa, Canada, married into a Provencal family...

Skidoo

A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West

by Alex Capus
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Decades after westward expansion swept over it, settled it, and domesticated it, the Wild West remains a potent source of American myth and mystery. But the actual history, and the traces of it that remain, are at least as interesting as the fiction, and in Skidoo, writer and novelist Alex Capus takes...

Lion and Lamb

A Portrait of British Moral Duality

by Mihir Bose
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

The great British dilemma is this: Britain is a country forever wrestling with two moral sides—whether to be viewed as a lion that roars and conquers, or a gentle lamb that gambols happily. In the days of the empire, one face meant the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, the Mother of Parliaments, and the...

Brexit and the British

Who Do We Think We Are?

by Stephen Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

Whatever the eventual outcome of Britain’s negotiations to leave the European Union, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about British society? As with the election of Donald Trump in the United States, why did so few people in Britain see the result coming? Why...

Britain in a Perilous World

The Strategic Defence and Security Review We Need

by Jonathan Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

The British government periodically publishes a Strategic Defence and Security Review, an appraisal of the armed forces that seeks to understand and prepare for the defense challenges that lie ahead. This report is often controversial-the 2010 review, for example, made headlines for all the wrong...
by David Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

The Anglo-Saxon view of Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) is based on John Maynard Keynes's misjudged caricature, that he had imposed a treaty that was harsh and oppressive of Germany. French critics' view, however, is that he had been too lenient, and left Germany in a position to challenge the treaty....
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