‘The Red Hotel’ by Alan Philps review
The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.
Reviews
‘Pax’ by Tom Holland review
An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.
‘Henry III’ by David Carpenter review
A new account of some of the most exciting, terrible and important years in English history.
‘Love in a Time of Hate’ by Florian Illies review
An account of the sex lives of European intellectuals is full of gossip – and as shallow as the society pages.
‘Tudor Liveliness’ by Christina J. Faraday review
Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.
‘The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram’ by Dean Snow review
Great cities more than a mile long, ‘banquette houses’, elephants, and birds with heads ‘as big as a man’s: the journey of David Ingram.
‘Goodbye Eastern Europe’ by Jacob Mikanowski review
Is it time to say goodbye to Eastern Europe, a world remade so frequently by empires, war and political ideologies that it scarcely stays the same for two generations in a row?
‘The Great White Bard’ and ‘Shakespeare Without a Life’ review
Two significant new publications push the parameters of how we engage with the most revered writer in the English language.
‘The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover’ by Lerone A. Martin review
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, thought the Bureau’s mission was to defeat the godless forces of liberalism, feminism and civil rights.
‘The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Volume I’, ‘II’ and ‘III’ review
From backbench MP and minor gentleman to Lord Protector and almost-king, a new edition provides the most complete and accurate version of Oliver Cromwell’s writings to date.