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War: How Conflict Shaped Us, by Margaret MacMillan

Margaret MacMillan's latest book makes us ponder deeply war and its impact.

Charlotte Cowell

The primary lesson of War is that it has shaped human history since the mark of Cain condemned us to endless cycles of conflict and the gods urged champions onto victory from the vantage point of Mount Olympus. The tangled roots of warfare are so densely packed it’s...

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, by Vladislav M. Zubok

A new account of the collapse of communism in Russia is damning of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Charlotte Cowell

As a long-term Russophile with a grudge against the Bolsheviks I jumped at the chance to review this authoritative book, written through the unclouded lens of such an illustrious Russian historian. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union is enthralling from the get-go,...