How the FSB Ensnared Donald Trump with the Most Expensive Property in the US and the Most Expensive Painting in the World
In 2017, the world's most expensive painting sold for a record $450 million. Twelve years earlier, it went under the hammer for $1,175, lacking the description: 'the only privately-owned Leonardo Da Vinci'. In this deeply-researched book, historian Yuri Felshtinsky traces the nebulous connections behind this miraculous increase in value. His story ......
This first biography of Unity Mitford since her diaries' publication explores her controversial life and influence as a British socialite and fervent supporter of fascism. Using new material, it delves into her complex relationship with Adolf Hitler, her ideological convictions, and personal struggles. It reveals fresh insights into Unity's ......
The Daring Expedition that Launched Arctic Exploration
New edited edition of the ripping, true-life diaries of Nansen's audacious expedition to cross Greenland at a time when no one had ever undertaken arctic exploration of any kind. At the time, no one had ever succeeded in or even seriously thought about penetrating the icy depths of Greenland. His plan for crossing with a small expedition, ......
Britain's military defence chief is found mysteriously dead in Cambridge on the night before a revelatory lecture about Scott's Antarctic expedition. Military spook Col. Daniel Jacot is tasked to investigate behind the scenes...
Marina has the life she always dreamed of. She is married to Mark, a gorgeous surgeon, writes a personal column for a leading tabloid and lives in the heart of Chelsea. But when writing a column about first love she stumbles on Tom, her one-that-got-away, and begins to feel that her life is not as complete as she had thought. When they are brought ......
What We Got Wrong about Immigration and How to Set It Right
The idea of population diversity and its benefits seem irrestible both in theory and in fact, as well as an everpresent element of the human condition. In this groundbreaking analysis, Ed West investigates the causes for Britain's disenchantment with a fifty year experiment with diversity gone wrong. He uncovers shocking mismanagement by the ......
An essential experts' guide to the sinister culture of contemporary Russia: Ben Hodges, Bill Browder, Fiona Hill, David Petraeus, John Sweeney, Julia Davis, Luke Harding, Mark Galeotti, Owen Matthews, Peter Pomerantsev and other leading experts.
When MI5 receives a first-ever invitation to monitor turbulence in China's restive New Silk Road region, Tony Underwood is dispatched as part of a gesture of goodwill. He has no special knowledge of the part of China that touches the stans, or of China full stop; but MI5 is not about to be misled by Bejing's suppression of the area's Muslim Uighur ......
