For sale in CIS only! The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjold and his UN team crashed into dark...

For sale in CIS only! Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in n...

For sale in CIS only! The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared al...

For sale in CIS only! Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? "Bridge Over Blood River's" haunting and subversive evocation of South Afr...

For sale in CIS only! The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to...

For sale in CIS only! Amid the turbulence of the Arab Spring, the revolutionary uprising that played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square created high expectations before dashing many of its participants' hopes. The unpredictable events and rapid upheaval t...

For sale in CIS only! The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has be...

For sale in CIS only! Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institutions, the media, and civil society. In her book Sara Rich Dorman examines the in...

For sale in CIS only! What has driven neighbouring states to intervene in the Afghan conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place Afghanistan at the centre – the so-called "heart" – of a large pan-Asian region whose fate is predica...

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth...