Reviews

Eyewitness reports of European wars and the febrile mood of nations as they tipped into conflict.

A fresh account of how Londoners responded to the impact of the Second World War.

The nightmarish power of the Soviet passport.

A ringside seat to British domestic politics, from Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler in October 1938 to the fall of Mussolini in July 1943.

Reporting from the frontlines of the mujahideen war against the Soviet Union.

The historical currents that have shaped modern Central Asia.

A tale of two translators, caught between civilisations.

Hunting in the archives for the ‘real’ Robin Hood.

I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Che Guevara collects the deft epistolary prose of the self-styled prophet.

The remarkable adolescence of the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.