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Reckless Fellows
The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Palermo – the capital of Sicily – is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence of the mafia. Jeremy Dummett here provides...
Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands
Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Regional struggles, wars and local confrontations have marked the south of Lebanon since the end of the 1960s. They have transformed this marginalized and rural region into a battlefield and redefined the relationships between international, regional and local actors. The most recent of these actors...
The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide
Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Against the backdrop of World War I, reports of massacre, atrocity, genocide and exile sparked the largest global humanitarian response up to that date. Britain and its empire - the most powerful internationalist...
Poland
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Polish independence following the end of World War I marked a new era for a nation which had endured centuries of foreign partition. But the spirit of Polish nationalism - forged during this long period of external domination - has been frequently at odds with the modernising drives of democracy and...
Lloyd George
Statesman or Scoundrel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'. He is, of course, best known as the Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War I, but his contribution to domestic politics was...
The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire
Modernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial...
Beyond Constantinople
The Memoirs of an Ottoman Jew
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Victor Eskenazi, a Sephardic Jew from Constantinople, represented an ethnic and religious minority that thrived in the Ottoman Empire. The beginning of the twentieth century was a critical period in Ottoman history, which saw the end of the Empire, defeat in World War I but also a colourful influx...
The Swan King
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Swan King is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the nineteenth
century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage...
William
King and Conqueror
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
1066 is the most famous date in English history. On 14 October, on Senlac Hill near Hastings, a battle was fought that would change the face of England forever. Over the next twenty years, Norman culture was imposed on England, and English politics and society were radically reshaped. But how much...
by Denis Judd
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
George VI was the man not born to be king. He nonetheless rescued the British monarchy in the aftermath of the abdication crisis and cemented its prestige with his well-judged performance during World War II and the Blitz. In this acclaimed biography, Denis Judd tells the story of Prince Bertie's...
Let 100 Voices Speak
How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily censored society, China has over 600 million active internet users. With the help of inventive memes and Chinese puns, political...
Dark Shadows
Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the...
by John Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites, who wrote, painted, partied and experienced life with an intensity and freedom that they never could back home. Into this louche and...
Amélie
French Film Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain was the surprise boxoffi ce success of 2001, with nine million spectators in France, and more than 30 million worldwide. The fi lm turned Audrey Tautou into an international star, in her iconic role as Amélie, a naïve French Parisian who devotes herself to mending...