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Vampire State
The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781780278377
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
In this book, Ian Williams tells the terrifying story of China’s vampire economy and the single-minded and ruthless policy of the Party to bend economics and business to its own will. All this is part of realising President Xi Jinping’s ambition of China becoming the world’s pre-eminent economic, technological and military power.
The Fire of the Dragon
China’s New Cold War
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780278759
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2024-05-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China’s aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West – but the rest of the world – ignores at its peril.
A Taste for Treason
The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780277882
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2022-12-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
When Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan’s frequent trips to Nazi Germany in 1937, she could not have known that she would become one of the world’s most successful amateur spycatchers. This is her untold true story, the story of how a Nazi spy’s letter, intercepted in Scotland, broke spy rings across Europe and America.
The Wars of the Bruces
Scotland, England and Ireland 1306 - 1328
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780276618
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2022-12-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.
A Time of Tyrants
Scotland and the Second World War
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780276250
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2019-10-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
400 Pages
Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and...
The Flowers of the Forest
Scotland and the First World War
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780276267
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2019-10-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
400 Pages
On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half...
Facing the Bear
Scotland and the Cold War
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781780275260
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2019-10-08
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
Trevor Royle gives a gripping and unique perspective of the Cold War which shows how Scotland would have been a major theatre of war in the event of WWIII. Includes recently declassified official information and interviews with many key figures, including UK Secretaries of State for Defence and senior officers from the Navy, Army and Air Force.
Wojtek the Bear
Polish War Hero
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781843410652
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2014-08-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
224 Pages
New, updated edition in advance of the unveiling of a statue of Wojtek next to the Scott Monument, Edinburgh, in May 2014. Journalist and historian Neal Ascherson reflects on the Polish experience in the Second World War. Wojtek has memorials at the Imperial War Museum, London, Edinburgh Zoo and in Canada, and he is a national hero in Poland
Vampire State
The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781780278377
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
The Fire of the Dragon
China’s New Cold War
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780278759
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2024-05-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
A Taste for Treason
The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780277882
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2022-12-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
The Wars of the Bruces
Scotland, England and Ireland 1306 - 1328
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780276618
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2022-12-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
A Time of Tyrants
Scotland and the Second World War
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780276250
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2019-10-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
400 Pages
The Flowers of the Forest
Scotland and the First World War
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780276267
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2019-10-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
400 Pages
Facing the Bear
Scotland and the Cold War
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781780275260
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2019-10-08
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Birlinn
368 Pages
Wojtek the Bear
Polish War Hero
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781843410652
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2014-08-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
224 Pages