The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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The author reveals how he reconstructed Sweden’s secret Cold War stay-behind network from fragments in archives, diaries and interviews.
Adrian Goldsworthy
A never-so-timely comparison of Athens and Sparta explores whether political freedom can establish military superiority and determine the outcome of ideological conflict.
Caillan Davenport
Rumour in the Roman world tended to flourish when it came to the the fate of emperors, threatening imperial stability and exposing public anxiety.
Debbie Kilroy
An account of the MP which contrasts an unconventional career with the self-interest and hypocrisy he shared with his Victorian contemporaries.
17th-century hardship, personal family loss, and a record of the names of the dead becomes a way for Karen Haden's protagonist to process grief and preserve memory.
A portrait of the hard-drinking, ambitious American correspondents who chronicled Europe’s slide toward war in the interwar years.
Edoardo Albert
A Venetian military engineer, who trained in the new science of war, risked exile, ruin and death to defend Rhodes against Suleiman the Magnificent, embodies Europe in transition.
A communist activist and Soviet agent, the Austrian-born Edith Tudor-Hart helped drive modernist photography and set in motion Britain’s most notorious spy ring.
An overview of the political and territorial complexity of 10th-century Britain, tracing the emergence of a unified England under Athelstan.
Caroline Sharples
Adolf Hitler’s death promised closure, but instead unleashed competing narratives, each of them revealing just how wartime fantasies, propaganda and post-war politics shaped the meaning of his demise.
