Weidenfeld Nicolson imprint: 429 books
The War of the Running Dogs
Malaya 1948-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday Express
Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the...
The Pursuit of Oblivion
A Social History of Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES
A history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed...
Tom Smith's Cricket Umpiring And Scoring
Laws of Cricket (2000 Code 4th Edition 2010)
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Tom Smith first wrote his guide for umpires and scorers in 1980. Since then, his indispensable guide has gone through six fully-revised editions. The 'new' Tom Smith is the first to be fully redesigned and updated for the 21st century. Its publication coincides with international recognition that...
Journey's End
Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' Observer
In February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The controversy...
Last Stand
Famous Battles Against The Odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
What do soldiers do when all is lost?
They keep fighting! In this best-selling anthology, Bryan Perrett provides gripping accounts of close-quarter battles and hard fought victory against all the odds. His journey from Napoleonic Europe through to the Korean War highlights thirteen episodes...
The Taste Of Battle
Front Line Action 1914-1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
As close as you can get to the reality of war. Three generations of front line soldiers recount their experiences.
Few people today experience a live war situation; even professional soldiers can serve their career without going to war. Yet the question is often asked, what is it like? How...
Crossing the Buffalo
The Zulu War of 1879
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
A new and complete history of Zululand, and its destruction at the hands of the British in 1879.
This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa.
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Shaka Zulu...
The Exmoor Files
How I Lost A Husband And Found Rural Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Moving from Islington to Exmoor; one small step for mankind but a very large one for MAIL ON SUNDAY columnist Liz Jones.
Liz Jones lived the perfect urban life. The immaculate Georgian townhouse in a leafy London square. The glamorous career. The Italian wardrobe stuffed with designer bags...
The Road Home
The Aftermath of the Great War Told by the Men and Women Who Survived It
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.
11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over.
After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives and mothers were reunited with loved ones they'd...
by Martin van Creveld
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Martin van Creveld's Moshe Dayan tells the story of one man and of one people, to whom he was a figurehead - a symbol of their patriotism and their determination to survive. Born in a kibbutz in 1915, Dayan joined the Hagana when he was just fourteen, thus starting early a military career that saw...
by W Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Vanity Fair in half the time
Becky Sharp is the most alluring yet ruthless heroine ever to climb the social ladder. From sordid bohemian beginnings she moves upwards through Regency society, betraying her husband, her friend Amelia and all who cross her in her determination to acquire power.
In...
Real Men Eat Puffer Fish
And 93 Other Dangerous Things To Consider
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The Dangerous Book for Men, not boys
Every man has faced that emergency where a car needs to be broken into and hot-wired; just as every man needs to be able to mix the perfect dry Martini. The world is a dangerous and unpredictable place; a man never knows when he might be called upon to start...
In Pursuit of Fulfilment
Principle Passion Resolve
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
This is the life story of one of the most successful business leaders of our time.
The formative influence upon Investcorp founder Nemir Kirdar was his father, who was mayor of Kirkuk and who instilled a public-service ethic in all of his sons. The book describes the events that drove Kirdar...
Lawrence Of Arabia
Mirage Of A Desert War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
A new biography of Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence is one of the most enigmatic characters in British history. At the outbreak of the First World War he was working as an archaeologist in the Middle East. He had no military training at all, and a strong distrust of politicians and senior officers...