The Ottoman Endgame- War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern East, 1908-1923

Sean McMeekin

The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm...

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

Yanis Varoufakis

THE SUNDAY TIMESNUMBER 1 BESTSELLERThe crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe?s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, 'the emerging rock star of Europe?s anti-austerity uprising? (Telegraph), shows that th...

Becoming Pakeha - A journey between two cultures

John Bluck

A journey between two cultures. After more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pakeha and Māori worlds grow ever more separate: the Aotearoa of today is a land...