Thorpe's history of the Labour Party has now been updated to offer a detailed analysis of Tony's Blair's thirteen-year leadership, and includes the story of Gordon Brown's appointment as PM.

Andrew Thorpe's book rapidly established itself as the leading single-volume history of the Labour Party. This second edition takes the story to 2000 with a new chapter on the development of "New Labour" and the Blair government.

The relationship between the British Communist Party and Soviet Communism is one of perennial fascination. In this text Thorpe makes extensive use of available sources, to offer a new view of this most controversial of topics.

This is now within the grasp of several businesses that are determined to see this vision through. The commercialization of low Earth orbit can free NASA, and the other space agencies around the world, to colonize the Moon and Mars.

In this new book Andrew Thorpe uses the fruits of the most recent research to assess the state of Britain in the 1930s.

Parties at War explores how the main political parties responded to this challenge, showing that struggles over organization had significance for the long-term development of 'party' in modern British politics.

The British general election of 1931 marked the culmination of a period of political and economic crisis, and has long been regarded as a watershed in twentieth-century British history.

Andrew Thorpe's superb contribution to the Companions series illuminates all this and much else. It will be indispensable to anyone interested in the history and politics of modern Britain.