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"combines the verve of a thriller with the detailed evidence of the sober, hideous truth..."

"nuanced and sympathetic..."

"an outstanding history of Islam..."

"frequently grips like a thriller..."

"clear and fluent..."

"Dina Nayeri’s book is an excellent addition to the literature of human rights..."

"The stories of what six siblings endured makes for a moving read..."

"The women rushed to get married, but the options for sons who did not inherit a fortune were limited..."

"a tour of gentlemen’s clubs from their rowdy beginnings to their stately present..."

"A sobering study of the suicides that swept a defeated Reich..."

"Guy deals sensitively with a treasure-house of new information about Gresham’s private life..."

"written with love, imagination and occasional (but glaring) historical inaccuracy..."

"This is an impressive and engaging work of scholarship,..."

"To cover all of these topics in just 340 pages is a remarkable feat..."

"[an] assured account of the former Irish Times editor’s life..."

"Personal and political, human and geographical histories are beautifully intertwined and preserved..."

"Rightwing identity politics that reject multiculturalism lie behind this attempt to relativise colonial excesses and rebut criticism of empire..."

"A State at Any Cost deserves to be the definitive biography of Ben-Gurion..."

"a balanced account of three wartime careers that deserve to be better known..."

"An impeccable, myth-busting study shows how much allied victory in the Second World War was thanks to their navies. ..."

"The decade of love and peace turned sour well before the Manson murders...."

"The Romans were addicted to violence — and not just the mad emperors..."

"This sweeping history shows how much Indian culture owes to Muslim invaders..."

"This biography chronicles Michael Gove’s journey from tweedy young fogey to revolutionary politician..."

"disturbing, closely argued book..."

"engagingly written and deeply researched..."

"an important book..."