Bloomsbury

In May 1987, a successful SAS ambush resulted in the deaths of eight IRA terrorists in Loughgall. Aware that retaliation was certain, British intelligence went on the alert, and eventually established that the IRA had selected Gibraltar as being a 'soft' target and one identified with British imperialism.In November, the terrorism experts...

An Epic Journey Through the Land of the NomadsThe relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century ' a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history....

The Story of the Jews of BaghdadMarina Benjamin grew up in London, feeling estranged from her family's Middle Eastern ways, refusing to speak Arabic or eat their food. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago, she realised that she was losing her link to the past, inspiring a journey to Baghdad and into her family's history....

By early 1944 the tide of the war was flowing steadily against the Germans, but to the Western Allies the need for a speedy victory was becoming more apparent with each new Russian advance and each new hint of the horror at work in the camps of occupied Europe.The SAS, born in North Africa as a strategic raiding force behind enemy lines, was well...

Terrorist bombs in town and city streets, an ever-rising tide of crime and a teenage drug problem that was rapidly escalating out of control'this was the ugly face of Great Britain in 1995.The conventional police forces were already stretched beyond their limit ' and now a new threat was looming. A fanatical right-wing movement that in...

In May 1982, as the British Task Force prepared for the recapture of the Falkland Islands, a lone Sea King helicopter made an apparently forced landing in the southernmost reaches of Chile. Its crew ' barely credibly ' claimed to have been propelled off course by a combination of adverse weather conditions and engine trouble.The reality,...