Saturday, 9 June 2012

Review: Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War

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This is a lively, well-written book which even though published by the best kind of university press (Harvard 2011) has a polemical, one-sid...
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Review: Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder

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Four hundred and sixty nine pages of small print in my paperback edition plus another eighty pages of apparatus, but it's a very readabl...
Sunday, 27 May 2012

Review: John Lanchester, Capital

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This is a long book (577 pages in my 2012 Faber hardback) and I read it in sittings, a method authorised by its four Parts and 107 Chapters....
Thursday, 24 May 2012

Review: Andrew Miller, Pure

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On a long journey, you might finish this 300 page novel at one sitting. I thought I might do so, but the pace and decisiveness of the first ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Review: David Keen, Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them

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It is often the job of science - and, more humbly, academic research - to show that the way things seem is not always the way they are. The ...
Saturday, 19 May 2012

Review: Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State

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This is a book with a complicated history. Originally published in the USA in 1944 to considerable success, it did not appear in Polish unti...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Review: Sean McMeekin, History's Greatest Heist: the Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

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Those who say Let History Be My Judge probably don't intend that to mean Let the Historians Be My Judge . Historians know that their wo...