John Murray imprint: 305 books
The Retreat
Hitler's First Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherland, pushed back...
Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories
From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
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'Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson's greatest legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of post-war Britain that chronicles the end of deference and secrecy, and the advent of a more...
Cairo in the War
1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was...
Hurricane
Victor of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.
The Luftwaffe greatly outnumbered the RAF, but during the Battle of Britain it was the RAF that emerged triumphant, thanks...
Spitfire
Portrait of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future...
Leningrad
State of Siege
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city?s civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in.
A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate...
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a...
For the Islands I Sing
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author's simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.
In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he rarely left.
Travels with a Tangerine
A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador,...
Landfalls
On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits.
Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls...
by Maggie Fergusson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by...
Constantinople
City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family.
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love...
The Hair of the Dog
And Other Scientific Surprises
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of the number pi; the fifth taste sensation lurking in everyone's taste buds which nobody knew about (except...
2071
The World Well Leave Our Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
How has the climate changed in the past?
How is it changing now?
How do we know?
And what kind of a future do we want to create?