Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

By Antony Beevor

In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.

Published: 03/12/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141032405

RRP: $26.95

Reflections on the Revolution in France

By Edmund Burke

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary...

Published: 01/08/1983

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140432046

RRP: $9.95

The State and Revolution

By Vladimir Lenin

'The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution'

Published: 19/10/1992

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140184358

RRP: $9.95

Another Day of Life

By Ryszard Kapuscinski

In Luanda, the capital of Angola, an apocalyptic atmosphere prevails as the Portuguese residents hurriedly desert the city. Determined to cover events as four hundred years of colonial rule come to an end, Ryszard Kapuscinski hitched a lift on one of the last Portuguese military aircraft flying to Angola. He discovered the terrifying spectacle of a war within the war for national independence: a murderous...

Published: 23/07/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141186788

RRP: $22.95