Matthew Parker
Panama Fever

To build a canal linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans was a heroic dream that spanned four centuries. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama. Panama Fever is a story of imperialism, technology. politics, finance, press manipulation, scandal and intrigue. populated by a dazzling cast of idealists and bullies, heroes and conmen.

Robert Stone
Dog Soldiers

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. His courier disappears - probably with his wife - and a corrupt Fed wants Converse to find them and the drugs. Dog Soldiers is a frightening. powerful. intense novel that perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s.

Covering nearly 2500 years, from 480 BC to 11 September 2001, Days that Changed the World tells the stories of fifty days that truly made history. Included are the Crucifixion, the Battle of Waterloo, the Apollo II Moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall. For each, Days that Changed the World explains the events of the day and their causes, providing an insight into the era and an understanding of wider themes of world history.

Peter Huchthausen  
October Fury

In October Fury, a U.S. Navy officer shares his first-hand account of the Cuban missile crisis. Using his own experiences as well as the personal accounts of U.S. and Soviet officers and sailors, Peter Huchthausen transports us to the deadly centre of this showdown at sea, in which four Soviet subs were equipped with nuclear torpedoes. Here, he re-creates the all-too-real events that brought the two superpowers to the very brink of mutual annihilation.