books by subject
Political History of Revolutions & Coups

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

Essential Works

A People's History of Scotland

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world

The French Revolution

Oxford AQA History for A Level: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953

Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Transformation of China 1936-1997

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

The End of Policing

The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

The Counter-Revolution in Revolution: Images of Thermidor and Napoleon at the Time of the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation

The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

French Revolution for Beginners

Fidel: A Critical Portrait (Coronet Books)

The Clarke Papers: Volume 27: Further Selections from the Papers of William Clarke (Camden Fifth Series, Series Number 27)

The Soccer War (Granta Paperbacks)

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

Age of Anger
