Francois Bizot's memoir of the 'killing fields' of Cambodia is a contemporary classic - the perfectly recalled, bitterly meditative account of one man's journey through a world …
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred …
Linda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British …
