Circassian
A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent
ISBN: PB: 9781805267171,
ISBN: HB: 9781849045780,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
400 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 21 illus.
400 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 21 illus.
A fascinating biography, based on private family papers, of the Young Turks' very own "Lawrence of Arabia", who later fell from grace with Kemal Ataturk.
Esref Kuscubas? remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the...
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One Man Against an Empire
M.N. Roy, British Intelligence and the Colonial Surveillance State
ISBN: PB: 9781805265672,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The compelling story of the hunt for one enigmatic foe of the British, birthing an entire colonial surveillance network and an Empire-wide intelligence strategy.
Manabendra Nath Roy was the prime focus of British paranoia in the 1920s and '30s. For...
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Plotting for Freedom
An Enslaved Couple's Intimate Letters in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: HB: 9781805266778,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
272 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 colour illus.
272 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 colour illus.
Revealing an enslaved couple's intimate correspondence across the Atlantic world, this haunting book traces how they imagined, planned and pursued freedom - for themselves and their children.
In the late sixteenth century, well before any whispering...
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Realist
The Life and Ideas of Hans Morgenthau
ISBN: HB: 9781805266723,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
528 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
528 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The first biography of Hans Morgenthau, the theoretician who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered the "realist" approach to international relations, now resurgent in global politics.
"International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power"...
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Prison Diaries
The Rebel Who Founded a Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781787383999,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An unflinching account of life in a Pakistani prison by a founding leader and the first elected prime minister of Bangladesh.
Born in 1920, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman studied law. One of the founders of the Awami League in 1949, he later led his party to...
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Great English Muslim
The Life and Times of Marmaduke Pickthall
ISBN: HB: 9781805265665,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
528 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
528 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
The definitive biography of British Muslim Marmaduke Pickthall: famous for his English translation of the Qur'an and an ardent campaigner for the Ottoman cause.
Since his death in 1936, Marmaduke Pickthall's reputation has rested on his popular Engl...
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General Hastings "Pug" Ismay
Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography
ISBN: PB: 9781805265924,
ISBN: HB: 9781911723202,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2026
496 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
496 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
A biography of the unsung general at Churchill's side throughout the Second World War, instrumental in events from Indian and Pakistani independence to the establishment of NATO.
General Lord Ismay's name is little known today, but he participated i...
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Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
A Life in Geopolitics
ISBN: PB: 9781805263142,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389373,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2026
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 41 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 41 black&white illus.
An award-winning critical biography of Finland's towering leader, charting his statecraft, his political journey and his strategic bravado, carving out independence between Stalin and Hitler.
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951)...
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Cancelled Prime Minister
The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald
ISBN: HB: 9781805265306,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2026
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
How the first working-class politician to reach Britain's highest office was brought down, and his legacy disparaged.
Ramsay MacDonald was born an illegitimate child in north-east Scotland. Leaving school at fourteen, he seemed bound to follow in hi...
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Black Crown
Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom
ISBN: PB: 9781805264408,
ISBN: HB: 9781787387799,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2026
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleon's armies and crowned himself a free black king.
How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon's invading troops and become king of the first free black na...
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