WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE'Vivid and moving' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Excellent . . . a powerful tribute' GuardianIn the summer of 1940, faced with national paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German, Austrian and Italian citizens living in Britain. Most were refugees who had fled Nazi oppression. They now faced imprisonment by the country in which they had s...

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025An Economist Book of the Year'An astonishing story brilliantly told . . . It is as moving as it is gripping to read'Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Endgame 1944'A richly researched and meticulously observed account of a little-explored corner of 20th-century history'Guardian'A fantastically well-researched...

Whether it's Space Invaders, Candy Crush Saga or Grand Theft Auto, video games draw us in and don't let go. In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing games beyond the limits of our physical wellbeing?Death by Video Game uncovers the real stories behind our video game obsession. Along the way, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin meets the players and game developers at the frontline...

Matamos el tiempo con los videojuegos pero ¿qué pasa cuando los videojuegos nos matan a nosotros? La pregunta da mucho de sí, y Simon Parkin intenta responderla sin olvidar que, para algunos, EVE Online, Grand Theft Auto y League of Legends tienen poderes salvíficos. Jugamos por muchos motivos, y Muerte por videojuego es, a su manera, una teoría estética y política del diseño, la programación y ese aparente contrasentido que es la vida en los mundos virtuales. Un estado de la cuestión y el...

Zum ersten Mal erzählt: das Schicksal deutscher Künstler in Churchills InternierungslagernIm Mai 1940 ließ Winston Churchill alle männlichen Deutschen und Österreicher zwischen 16 und 60 Jahren als »feindliche Ausländer« internieren. Die Flüchtlinge waren den Nazis gerade entkommen und wurden nun auf die Isle of Man zwischen Irland und England verbannt. Das Hutchinson Camp wurde daraufhin zu einem kreativen Zentrum, in dem einige der begabtesten Denker, Schriftsteller, Musiker und ...

As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a group of ten Wrens (members of ...

Hiring Right is for anyone who interviews and hires for their organization – Hiring Managers, Business Leaders, HR Professionals and Recruiters. What you learn by reading Hiring Right will make it easier to hire great talent. This book presents a model for finding, engaging, closing, and retaining the top candidates and high performers in your market. In a world where many organizations emptily proclaim that people are their greatest asset, this book speaks to the new way...

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War.The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindert...

Zum ersten Mal erzählt: das Schicksal deutscher Künstler in Churchills InternierungslagernSimon Parkin beleuchtet ein bisher unbekanntes Kapitel des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Im Mai 1940 ließ Winston Churchill alle männlichen Deutschen und Österreicher zwischen 16 und 60 Jahren ohne Gerichtsverfahren als »feindliche Ausländer« internieren. Die Flüchtlinge waren den Nazis gerade entkommen und wurden nun von Churchill auf die Isle of Man zwischen Irland und England verbannt. Das Hutchinson...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Scientific American, and The EconomistThe riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice)—from the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives.In the summe...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025*From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity*An Economist Book of the Year*'An astonishing story brilliantly told . . . It is as moving as it is gripping to read'Jonathan Dimbleby, author of...

The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and—possibly—genuine spies.Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a peril...