Young Stalin

Vital prequel to the internationally best-selling biography STALIN: COURT OF THE RED TSAR

Drawing on letters, memoirs, conversations, this book tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. It recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it.

This is the story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years.

Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. This book offers accounts of life under Adolf Hitler, spoken through the words of those who experienced the Nazi regime at every level of society. It provides an insight into Nazi mentality during the most bloody conflict in history.

The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.

Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. This book charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for German business, to Hitler's own plans for new trans-continental motorways.

Presents a full-blooded account of the pivotal period in twentieth-century European history. This book vividly recounts the struggles of the war, analyzes the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, and assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War was a portent of the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it.

A gripping and revealing account of the 1938 Munich appeasement crisis and its aftermath, showing how close we came to winning peace, but losing our soul.

An overview of 20th-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes you from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain world of Yeltsin and Putin.