The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thi...

At the Mountains of Madness

H P Lovecraft

At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes...

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Tim Bouverie

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut' Antony Beevor'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' Max Hastings'Brilliant and sparkling ... reads like a thriller. I couldn't put it down' Peter Frankopan On a wet afternoon in Sep...