The Munich crisis in 1938 triggered air-raid precautions, including the distribution of gas masks and sandbags. Actual war in ...

Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen - What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost by Orlando Reade ...

Sharpe père died in 1944, shortly before he could be apprised of the realities of Belsen. Even with the benefit of Brendon’s ...

With Saints, Amy Jeffs makes her own contribution to the centuries-old tradition of abridging and compiling saints’ lives.

On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation by Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

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The Story of Handel’s Messiah by Charles King ...

We Wanna Live Like Common People - Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite by Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman ...

Architects Behaving Badly - A Short History of British Architecture, from Stonehenge to the Shard by Simon Jenkins ...

Among medieval heroes, El Cid has proved the most durable. There is no doubt that he, unlike King Arthur, existed; it is ...

Kaput is about the problems facing Germany rather than the successes of the UK. Münchau (the clue is in the umlaut) is very ...