The massacre at Amritsar on 13th April 1919 spurred one survivor to vow revenge. Twenty-one years later Udham Singh was arrested for the murder of Michael O'Dwyer, the instigator of the killings. Anita Anand traces Singh's extraordinary journey.
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that ...
The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century.
***LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019*** How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years? 'A timely reminder of what truly great journalists can achieve.'
Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of all time, Gone with the Wind, to help explain the divisions ripping the United States apart today.
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH
The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker.