Non-Fiction Ideas

Featuring a new foreword and maps, Eagle Against the Sun is Ronald H. Spector’s definitive history of World War Two in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

With only two genuine dates, this irreverent romp is history as every schoolboy would wish it – hilarious and memorable.

The thrilling true story of the largest British-led mass-escape of the Second World War.

A vivid portrait of a post-Mao China, from one of the great travel writers.

Blending investigative journalism with the personal approach of a writer both fascinated and appalled by her subject, this is an award-winning portrait of life under ‘one of the most savage surveillance regimes ever known’. With previously unpublished photographs by the author.

Written more than 2,500 years ago, The Art of War remains the most famous military treatise of all time. Sun-tzu’s collection of precepts on strategic warfare has yet to be surpassed.