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The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended.

Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by - and in reaction to - an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab.

Crawley is blisteringly candid about the people he worked with and unflinching in his commentary on the IRA leadership. Through it all comes the steadfast voice of a man on a mission, providing an evocative and passionate account of where that mission led him and why. 

The surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them and were in turn formed by them.

To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed. 

Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history.

Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs.

Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains.

No future year of the Troubles experienced such death and destruction. Drawing on interviews, personal recollections and archival research, O'Doherty takes readers on a journey through the events of that terrible year

What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act?

So begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography, as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family's past.