Lithuania
A Short History
ISBN: PB: 9781911723608,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The first popular history of a small post-Soviet state, and a very old European power.
Lithuania is often portrayed as a small nation-state that has survived against the odds of history: together with Estonia and Latvia, it won independence at the...
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Colonialism Devours Itself
The Waning of Francafrique
ISBN: HB: 9781911723653,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2025
264 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
264 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
A historically grounded account, from de Gaulle onwards, of how France's neocolonial influence crumbled in Africa, with devastating and unforeseen consequences.
France is the only country that never decolonised its colonies, emotionally, financial...
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Ashes of Our Fathers
Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh
ISBN: HB: 9781911723578,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Vivid reportage from a war at the edge of Europe, between two ancient peoples caught up in great power interests and clashing narratives of home.
On 19 September 2023, war broke out once again in Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny breakaway state nestled in...
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Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism
Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England
ISBN: HB: 9781911723585,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English con...
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Vatican Spies
From the Second World War to Pope Francis
ISBN: HB: 9781911723400,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A revelatory history of the priests, nuncios and missionaries whose "special operations" have served the Holy See and the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide.
"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does that mean that no one carries ou...
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Cadiz
The Story of Europe's Oldest City
ISBN: HB: 9781911723615,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
324 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 60 illus.
324 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 60 illus.
A captivating portrait of an overlooked Andalusian gem.
This is the tale of Western Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and resistance.
Helen Crisp and Jules Ste...
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People on the Beach
Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781805261629,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383777,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 31 illus.
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 31 illus.
A vivid history tracing Holocaust survivors who risked everything again for a new life in Palestine.
One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...
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Zero Sum
The Arc of International Business in Russia
ISBN: HB: 9781911723561,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An insider's account of the rise and fall of Western business ventures in post-Soviet Russia.
When the hammer and sickle flag came down at the Kremlin at the end of 1991, a feverish new market opened for business: Russia. In 2022, as soon as Putin...
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25.00 GBP
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Who Will Defend Europe?
An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
ISBN: HB: 9781911723486,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Europe is sleepwalking into disaster. Who will rouse it to face the Russian threat?
Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday, ou...
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20.00 GBP
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Putin's War on Ukraine
Russia's Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781805260158,
ISBN: HB: 9781787388512,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
624 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
624 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
Why did Putin invade Ukraine?
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin viewed this attack on a neighbour as a legacy-defining mission, which sought to restore a central...
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