William Collins The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution and Revenge Preston Paul

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics • The ancient Chinese art of warfare written by military strategist Sun Tzu in the 5th century BC

Шокирующее расследование об опустошении, которому подвергается Африка из-за выкачивания ресурсов, и изнанке мировой экономики • Перед вами бескомпромиссное разоблачение глобальной сети спекулянтов, банкиров, тиранов, прислужников корпораций и разномастных посредников, расхищающей природные богатства Африки. Поля боя в Конго, месторождения нефти в Нигерии, медь и железо, золото и бриллианты, колтан... дары природы превратились в проклятие, обрекающее миллионы на бедность, насилие и угнетение. Вернее, были превращены в проклятие людьми. Эта книга - путеводитель по тёмной стороне глобального рынка, на которой бессовестные дельцы в сговоре с африканскими клептократами выжимают из целого континента все соки. И у тех, кто наживается на этом великом разграблении, есть имена

Лондонский адвокат оказывается втянутым в череду странных происшествий, связанных с его старым другом Генри Джекилом и презренным незнакомцем Эдвардом Хайдом, человеком, который, кажется, воплощает в себе само значение зла. Какова таинственная власть Хайда над Джекилом и в чем причина все более странного поведения Джекила? Расследования приведут в темное сердце викторианского Лондона и к самой человеческой природе, поскольку шокирующая правда об истинной личности Хайда наконец-то будет раскрыта • "Странный случай доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда", опубликованный в 1886 году и получивший признание критиков, представляет собой захватывающее исследование взаимодействия добра и зла и ужасающей двойственности, которая кроется внутри каждого из нас

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон — английский писатель шотландского происхождения, поэт, автор приключенческих романов и повестей, крупнейший представитель английского неоромантизма. Единоборство добра и зла стало основной темой его произведений. В «Странной истории доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда» происходит переосмысление традиционной для романтизма и готического романа темы двойничества под углом зарождающейся научной фантастики, где зловещий двойник получает свободу действий благодаря раздвоению личности. Поглощая зелье своего собственного изготовления, доктор Джекил, добродетельный ученый, превращается в своего страшного двойника мистера Хайда, низкого душевно и отвратительного физически. Загадочная история таинственного Генри Джекила наводит на безотчетный ужас своей необъяснимостью

Inspired by Hemingway’s adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade. Featuring the author’s only full-length play, the works recount decadent parties and doomed love affairs amid the rubble, and effortlessly capture the devastating effects of the war on the inhabitants of the city

The sinking of the White Ship in 1120 is one of the greatest disasters England has ever suffered. In one catastrophic night, the king’s heir and the flower of Anglo-Norman society were drowned and the future of the crown was thrown violently off course • In a riveting narrative, Charles Spencer follows the story from the Norman Conquest through to the decades that would become known as the Anarchy: a civil war of untold violence that saw families turn in on each other with English and Norman barons, rebellious Welsh princes and the Scottish king all playing a part in a desperate game of thrones. All because of the loss of one vessel – the White Ship – the medieval Titanic

The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this 'African El Dorado' cost the lives of many explorers but Timbuktu is rich beyond its legends. Home to many thousands of ancient manuscripts on poetry, history, religion, law, pharmacology and astronomy, the city has been a centre of learning since medieval times • When jihadists invaded Mali in 2012 threatening destruction to Timbuktu's libraries, a remarkable thing happened. A team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the precious manuscripts into hiding. Based on new research and first-hand reporting, Charlie English expertly tells this story set in one of the world's most fascinating places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today • Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog as an ancient and essential ally. While undoubtedly it was the mastery of fire, language and agriculture that propelled Homo sapiens from a scarce, medium-sized primate to the position we enjoy today, Sykes crucially credits a fourth element for this success: the transformation of the wolf into the multi-purpose helpmate that is the dog. Drawing upon archaeology, history and genetics, Sykes shows how humans evolved to become the dominant species on Earth, but only with the help of our canine companions

In the tradition of ‘Agent Zigzag’ comes a breathtaking biography of WWII’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistant • When the Nazis invaded France during the Second World War and imprisoned his father, Robert de La Rochefoucauld – a scion of one of the oldest aristocratic families in France – escaped to England and trained in the dark arts of anarchy and combat. Under the guidance of SOE spies, he learned to crack safes, plant bombs and kill enemies with his bare hands • Then, back in France, he organised Resistance cells, killed Nazi officers and interfered with German missions

As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood's insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to the centre of political power in this country for more than 25 years • He directly served four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the first and only Permanent Secretary of 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Secretary and the Head of the Home Civil Service. He was at the centre of every crisis from the early 1990s until 2018 and most of the key meetings. Invariably, when faced with a new policy initiative a Prime Minister's first response would be: 'but what does Jeremy think?' • Jeremy worked up until his death, retiring just a few days before he died from lung cancer in October 2018. This book began as a joint effort between Jeremy and his wife Suzanne - working together in the last months of his life

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept • The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? • Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. Rosemary Sullivan unfolds the story in a gripping, moving narrative • Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works – journalism, books, plays and novels – devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years – and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door

Eleven years when Britain had no king • In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution • On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the ‘useless and dangerous’ House of Lords discarded. The people, it was announced, were now the sovereign force in the land. What this meant, and where it would lead, no one knew • The Restless Republic is the story of the extraordinary decade that followed. It takes as its guides the people who lived through those years. Among them is Anna Trapnel, the daughter of a Deptford shipwright whose visions transfixed the nation. John Bradshaw, the Cheshire lawyer who found himself trying the King. Marchamont Nedham, the irrepressible newspaper man and puppet master of propaganda