Detached palaeontologist Howard Beamish is on a journey that is to change his life. Travelling to Nairobi, his plane is forced to land in Marsopolis. Also on the flight is journalist, Lucy, and they find themselves embroiled in a revolution.

Returning to the steamy backwater of Costaguana in South America, Charles Gould is determined to make a success of his inherited silver mine. However, his dreams of wealth and power are thwarted when the country is plunged into revolution.

From the Peasants' Revolt to the suffragettes, from Oliver Cromwell to Arthur Scargill, this book describes a rich and continuous tradition of resistance, rebellion and radicalism. It tells of violent and charismatic individuals with axes to grind, social eruptions and political earthquakes that have shaped England's whole culture.

The untold history of the Western invasion of Soviet Russia - and the tragedy it created. In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted by a long, brutal war, 15 nations cobbled together an army of 180,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was spearheaded by Britain, her colonial forces and allies. It was designed to stop the Bolsheviks...

Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the rumours are to be believed. But it is hard to believe that this slender, frail man is the one they once called The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon. Before, he was just Tarare. Well-meaning and hopelessly...

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead of his head, Samson is left an orphan, with only his father's collection of abacuses for company. Until, that is, his flat is requisitioned...

This is the inspiring and moving true story behind the Bafta-winning film, }Pride{, which highlights the bond formed between two unlikely groups. A fully authorised tie-in, the film made over $4 million at the UK box office.

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity...