Somme; Into The Breach

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows t...

The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviours that Transform Ordinary People into World Class Leaders

Elena L. Botelho; Kim Powell; Tahl Raz

*** New York Timesbestseller!*** Everything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact, only 7 percent of the CEOs of today's companies went to a top school--and 8 percent didn't graduate from college at all. Never put a foot...

Nobody Leaves

Ryszard Kapuscinski

When the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign assignments. The resulting pieces brought together in this new collection, nearly all of which are translated into English for the first time, reveal a p...