The brilliance of Bertrand Russell needs no introduction, for he is one of the greatest philosophers, scientists and social critics of our time. The contents of this book, however, are of particular significance, for here we see Lord Russell’s...
The amazing true story of Great Britain’s quest for the H-Bomb. Sensational new material reveals:-
• Lord William Penney, Britain’s master-bomb-maker was an American stooge they dubbed “The Smiling Killer.”
• Air-Vice Marshal...
In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the...
This is the story of one ship, from her birth in a small shipyard near Rochester to her death fifty years later in a breaker's yard at Rotherhithe (1782-1836). The ship was called Bellerophon, after the Greek hero who tamed the winged horse Pegasus,...
Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of “Eurasianism,” a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s...
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent...
Translated from the Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach, woodcuts by Lopata. A short history of the Ukrainian Cossacks has been included as a foreward to give the English speaking reader background knowledge of the events taking place in this novel. This book...