Book Reviews

by Holger Hoock

 Denis Judd looks at a book on the cultural interactions and achievements that accompanied Britain’s imperial expansion

by Jenny Hartley

The famous author's attempts to help Victorian prostitutes

by Craig Nelson

 The story of the Apollo mission

by Alex Butterworth

Mike Rapport looks at a history of Europe’s 19th- and 20th-century anarchists

by Sune Persson

Roger Moorhouse on a tale of heroic enterprise in the Second World War

 
by RIchard Miles

Richard Alston looks at an expert account of a civilisation that was defeated and humiliated by the Roman empire

by Deborah Cohen

Peter Gurney on a book about our obsession with furnishing 

by Evan Mawdsley

 Joe Maiolo is impressed with the scope of a concise book on the Second World War

by John Ure

 Saul David enjoys an account of adventurous spies in Asia

 
by Richard Rex

 Pauline Croft looks at a short book on Elizabeth I

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