‘The Happy Traitor’ by Simon Kuper review
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia. The Extraordinary Story of George Blake unpicks the motives and damage inflicted by the double agent.
Reviews
The Lives of Napoleon
The erstwhile emperor continues to attract biographers and readers alike. Laura O’Brien assesses recent work on his life and legacy.
Breaking Time’s Arrow
A meditative, intensive and sweeping critique of the discipline of history.
‘The Fiume Crisis’ by Dominique Kirchner Reill review
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill explores the complexity of ‘Europe’s smallest successor state’.
Turn on, Tune in, Fight Back
How the humble radio station organised resistance, inspired the masses and countered powerful settler propaganda.
Long Division
The tension between colonial government and the work of missionaries characterised British colonialism in Nigeria.
The Poet as Daemon
The radicalising dangers of reading and writing poetry.
In Plain Sight
A harrowing account of unhidden paedophilia.
The Invisible
The sobering story of the Indian Labour Corps.
Now We Can See
The rays of Enlightenment have varied sources.