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Why did acts of sabotage by the Dutch Resistance during World War Two, that saved countless Jews from the camps, remain largely hidden to the present day? This is the story of the remarkable bravery and heroism, and also of terrible betrayal. Anna-Maria van der Vaart is 104, remarkably independent despite her failing eyesight, living on the south coast of England. During the darkest days of the war, in her home country of Holland, she sheltere...

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to 'impose democracy' on countries that failed to recognise the new order. Politicians foretold the universalisation of Western v...

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to 'impose democracy' on countries that failed to recognise the new order. Politicians foretold the universalisation of Western v...

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A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures-not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly...

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.

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Bursting with the real-life drama of love in turbulent times, An Unquiet Heart is a magnificently wrought novel of passion and violence, triumph and tragedy.

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for h...

A new book from the author of the bestselling "Philomena", this is the true story of Ayesha. She's a young woman born in Pakistan and living in Britain whose life is thrown into turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities say he killed himself, but Ayesha doesn't believe them, and investigates with Martin Sixsmith.

The journalist Sixsmith tells the story of Philomena Lee, an Irish woman whose son was taken from her by the Church at the age of three, because she was an unmarried teenage mother and considered a 'fallen woman'. The son, Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and Republican official. When he found he had AIDS, he decided to track down his mother, but died before they could meet again.

New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. ...

Combining in-depth research with his personal experiences as the BBC Moscow correspondent for almost twenty years, Sixsmith tells Russia's full and fascinating story, from its foundation in the last years of the tenth century to the first years of the twenty-first, skillfully tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past. Covering politics, music, literature and art, he explores the myths Russians have created fro...

Paperback edition of Sixsmith's bestselling history of Russia. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the complex political landscape of the country, it explains how Russia's identity has been formed over a thousand years. Sixsmith is a former Moscow correspondent for the BBC, and uses his personal experiences to elucidate Russian history.

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In the Russia of 1917, a drunken, womanising poet courts fame and rubs shoulders with Rasputin, Trotsky and the Tsar while navigating a life-changing but difficult love affair.