Product Description: How the Nazi leader made use of sports for his own ends, from his utilization of the 1936 Olympics to showcase the Nazi state, to the political importance given to the Joe Louis and Max Schmeling matches Adolf Hitler understood the importance of sports, and this book outlines how he exercised his malign and dangerous influence to try to coopt them for the Nazi cause...read more

Product Description: Ayrton Senna was more than a great racing driver: he was a giant of a man who, 17 years after his death, is still mourned as no sportsman has ever been. Much has been written about him, but this book approaches the subject with a powerfully different focus...read more

Product Description: For almost three decades, the Cold War was focused on Berlin, where the two (nuclear-armed) sides were kept apart by a twelve-foot wall, which had appeared almost overnight in August 1961. For a generation, until its fall in November 1989, it not only divided the city of Berlin, but also symbolised the confrontation between capitalist West and socialist East...read more

Product Description: When the Brawn GP team rose Phoenix-like from the dying embers of the Honda Formula 1 operation, it caused a sensation. The team humiliated Ferrari and McLaren winning the Contructors' World Championship and Jenson Button, written off by many, finished the 2009 season as World Champion...read more

Product Description: For the first time, here is a complete guide to every circuit that has hosted Grand Prix racing since the Formula 1 World Championship began in 1950 – from volcanic Mount Fuji in Japan to the woodlands of Hockenheim, from turbulent Argentina to the Swedish tundra, from the Middle East deserts to the teeming streets of Monte Carlo...read more

Product Description: Christopher Hilton tells the dramatic story of each race that has clinched the World Championship since it began in 1950, right up to Lewis Hamilton’s thrilling showdown at the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix in only his second season...read more

Product Description: Documenting an incredible unification in the history of Europe, this account examines the merging of East and West Germany following the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Describing how a totalitarian, atheist, and communist system was married with a democratic, Christian, and capitalist one, this study explores relevant questions such as How did this marriage affect the everyday life of ordinary Germans? How did combining two telephone systems, postal services, hospitals, industry, and railways work? and How were women’s rights, welfare, arts, and housing affected? Spotlighting how this consolidation was never forewarned and how no country had ever tried joining two completely opposite systems before, this investigation presents a fascinating chronicle told through the words of the people who lived through it...read more

Product Description: Small, unfashionable, short of money and the last of their kind to become a force in Grand Prix racing. The story of Toleman is not only fascinating and improbable – it has never been told before.   This was the team that took Ayrton Senna into Formula 1, to which he responded by creating a masterpiece of movement at Monaco...read more

Product Description: Clay Regazzoni was a complete gentleman off the track, but tough on it. He was a pure racer and dedicated himself to that. He was a Grand Prix driver throughout the 1970s, during which time he spent six seasons with Ferrari, where he partnered such as Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti and Niki Lauda...read more

When Michael Schumacher retired from Formula One, battling to win his eighth World Championship, fans questioned how he, and indeed former team-mates and rivals, would react after the end of such a stupendous, record-breaking career. This book tells the story of this man.

Product Description: The extraordinary events of the 1982 Formula One season are still hard to believe 25 years on. Most memorable of all was the thrilling fight for the title -- the 16 races were won by 11 different drivers -- and the controversy surrounding the deaths of three men, two of them Grand Prix icons...read more

Product Description: The Berlin Olympic Games, more than 70 years on, remain the most controversial ever held. This book creates a vivid account of the disputes, the personalities, and the events which made these Games so memorable. Ironically, the choice of Germany as the host nation for the 1936 Olympics was intended to signal its return to the world community after defeat in World War I...read more

Product Description: The little band of Puritan emigres that left Southampton in 1620 to found a godly colony in America had no inkling that they were the forerunners of the greatest feat of nation-building in the early modern world. In this book Christopher Hilton recreates the lives and aspirations of the Pilgrims, from before their famous voyage on the Mayflower to the far-reaching and astonishing implications of their emigration...read more

Product Description: The worst crash in motor racing history - killing more than 80 people - was produced by a ferocious and haunting combination of circumstances: nationalism, raw speed, the nature of a 24-hour race, and chance. The crash drew in Mike Hawthorn, the blond playboy from Farnham, in a Jaguar, and Juan-Manuel Fangio, one of the greatest drivers of all, in a Mercedes...read more

Product Description: In this meaty paperback, published to mark the tenth anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death, Christopher Hilton marries and updates four of his earlier titles about the legendary driver into one volume of more than 100,000 words. He chronicles Senna's entire story, from the wealthy childhood in Brazil to his fatal crash in 1994...read more

Product Description: This fully updated edition of this important and successful book explores in depth the 2002 season as Michael Schumacher equaled Juan-Manuel Fangio's record of five Formula 1 World Championships and 2003 when, after early euphoria, he faced one of the hardest fights of his career against his brother Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya, both driving for Williams, and young Kimi Raikkonen in the McLaren...read more

Product Description: This deeply personal and beautifully illustrated volume - published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death - draws together the memories of those who knew and loved him, telling in their own words why he was so special to them, as a driver, as a man, as a colleague, as a friend, and as a hero...read more

Product Description: This book gets behind the PR-speak to explore what Grand Prix drivers really think and feel. They talk with rare frankness of their hopes and fears, how they began racing and what forces them to continue. From Michael Schumacher at the front of the grid to Perry McCarthy who never got on the grid at all, they discuss crashes, emotions, survival techniques - and even how racing compares with sex...read more

Product Description: Tazio Nuvolari (1892-1953) is widely regarded as the greatest racing driver of all time. Through the 1930s and into the 1940s his reputation for skill and bravery eclipsed a whole generation of rivals. Even today his name alone evokes a classic era in the history of road and Grand Prix racing...read more