Inside Outsider
The glittering career of Hella Pick, child refugee from Hitler’s Vienna and an exile in wartime Britain.
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Forging Ahead
The industry of fake charters, from the tenth century, to its zenith two centuries later.
Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be
What sort of society produced Shakespeare?
Unintended Consequences
Over three centuries of muddle, messy compromise and financial mismanagement.
Treacherous Waters
Modern naval intelligence, from the 19th century to the Cold War.
Luther & Co.
Confronting Martin Luther’s ugly side.
Revolutionary Cut Short
Amílcar Cabral, global figure in anticolonialism.
Rebels in Rubber Soles
The denizens of an Asian underground who waged a clandestine struggle against European colonial powers.
War is Hell
A visceral history of of American soldiers in Belgium, France and Italy, 1943-45.
Just a Book?
The story of Thomas Jefferson’s bible, his own version of the Gospels.