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Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph’Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth’ — Caroline Moorehead, GuardianExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana…
Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what…
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only…
Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction’Spellbinding … a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age … it is a classic’ Evening Standard’In the finest traditions of American investigative journalism’ The Times’Spectacular … makes Bourne movies pale in comparison’ Financial TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost…
WINNER OF THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A SPECTATOR BOOK THE YEAR 2019’Brilliant. The best discussion of soldiers in combat, their motivation, behaviours and fears, that I…
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.’By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development’ Antony Beevor’Groundbreaking. You might have thought that we know everything there is to know about…
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019’Astonishing, staggering’ Ben Okri, Daily TelegraphA groundbreaking history that will transform our view of West Africa By the time of…
‘Vivid, thrilling, a delight … Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe’s flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near future … an exciting book, full of wonder’ James McConnachie, Sunday Times A place of…
From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany,…
‘A training manual for our troubled times … It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. … It is a book that cares about liberty, choice and a moral compass, that warns against hubris’ Roger Boyes, The TimesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of…
‘A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises — which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding…
‘An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation’ (Sunday Telegraph) from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires — Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian — and they all left…
The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new ‘Reiwa’ Era and the year of the Olympics’A superb book that, better than any other I have read, manages to get the reader inside the skin of Japanese society … astutely observed … a great…
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019* ‘As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read’ Viv Groskop, Observer ‘A riveting account of human error and state duplicity. . . rightly being hailed as a classic’ Hannah Betts, Daily TelegraphOn 26 April 1986…
‘Not only our most distinguished historian but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory’ SpectatorIn answering the question, ‘what is history?’, E. H. Carr’s acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the facts of history are simply those which the historian selects for scrutiny. His fluent and hugely wide-ranging account of the nature…