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For centuries, Russian imperialism has shaped the fate of its neighbours, from the tsarist conquests to Soviet domination and today's relentless aggression. This book exposes the …

Hur driver man en kärnkraftsanläggning under attack, och var går gränsen mellan hjältemodig pliktuppfyllelse och förräderi?  På eftermiddagen den 24 februari 2022, när ett nytt …

»Jag satte mig för att skriva ner min livshistoria, men jag hade visst lyckats hitta en penna som stammade.« Allt börjar med världens skapelse i en vagn på den smalspåriga …

Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has …

????? 'Highly recommend for your summer reading' Reader Review ?????Can one house hold a lifetime of secrets?Corfu, 1930The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories …

Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. …

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to …

Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's …

'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or …

De lyckades hålla sig kvar i gettot in i det sista, sedan flydde de, rev av sig judestjärnan och "försvann" - under det att tyskarna, efter att ha satt eld på allt utom kyrkan, …