Social sciences

We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we conti

'By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume' Daily Telegraph

Drawing on decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill's family and estate, this classic bestseller remains the definitive biography of Britain's greatest prime minister. At once intimate and vastly ambitious, it transforms our unde