Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
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This book’s subject, Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul, has been called the world’s greatest city. Appropriately, the author has chosen a multi-faceted viewpoint ...Read Review
Who Killed Piet Barol?
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This is the sequel to the author’s History of a Pleasure Seeker, published in 2010, which focused on the hedonistic life of Piet ...Read Review
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father
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This fascinating book follows Benjamin Franklin’s life in Georgian Britain from 1757-1775, with a brief intermission back in Philadelphia. He came in ...Read Review
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
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This is an erudite and well-written account of how, during and after the mostly German-committed atrocities in Europe in World War Two, the ...Read Review
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa
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Starting with the shelling of Algiers by a French battle fleet in 1830, Lawrence James paints a deep and nuanced picture of the relationship ...Read Review
A Hero of France
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German-occupied Paris, March 10th, 1941. The novel opens with Mathieu, head of a Resistance cell, and through his eyes we see the silent streets ...Read Review
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
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Historian Adrian Goldsworthy chronicles the rise of Rome, revealing how the Romans came to control so much of the world. He goes into ...Read Review
Tank Action
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This is the personal story of an armoured troop commander’s war, 1944 to 1945. David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst ...Read Review
Blood and Fears: How America’s Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War
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Most of us are, to varying degrees, aware of the appalling loss of life sustained by the men of Bomber Command and the ...Read Review
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
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The author examines that extraordinary century, the twentieth, which really did bear little relation to any that had preceded it. Now that we ...Read Review
