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"a freewheeling collection of essays explores black culture in the US..."

"While I admire brevity, the subject demands more depth than this volume provides...."

"The unspeakable is succeeded by the unthinkable in this passionately written history..."

"a torturous history of the massacre..."

"A city dweller’s views of the countryside are upended in this subtle, moving study..."

"Lin summons sights and smells from San Francisco to London in a gloriously multifaceted memoir..."

" To call his grasp of detail thorough is the faintest of compliments – obsessively attentive would not be out of place..."

"it is impossible to read Beyond and avoid feeling that, ultimately, [the Soviets] deserved to win..."

"a proud, angry and ultimately hopeful rallying cry for the causes of democratisation and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa..."

"The book springs to life in the epilogue..."

" Mir offers us a fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction..."

"In some of the most raw, shattering accounts of the Great War, soldiers, medics and those left to grieve tell visceral stories in heartbreaking letters, diaries and memoirs..."

"(an) engrossing and revelatory investigation..."

"Four Hundred Souls is all the richer for its plurality of perspectives..."

"a remarkable feat of scholarship on an international scale..."

"The approach may be traditional, but The Western Front is whizz-bang up-to-date. ..."

"an original and refreshingly unorthodox approach to history..."

"The book is well researched and very well written. It puts forward new ideas and revives some old ones to challenge current mainstream interpretations of the conflict..."

"Derek Scally digs deep to understand rather than condemn collusion and betrayal of faith..."

"The tug of war over where these exquisite sculptures should reside..."

"an intelligent and insightful account of the evolution of the role..."

"Editor Simon Heffer brings us the first, sensationally unexpurgated volume of the musings of the Chicago-born socialite and social climber..."

"She makes a convincing argument that in the not-so-distant future we will once again be clasping the clammy, germ-ridden paws of near-strangers. ..."

"sudden displacements drive this author’s multifaceted memoir..."

"Her testimony brought a trafficker down ... the fate of a photographer’s assistant who was lured into prostitution is brilliantly pieced together..."

"The philosopher’s lively private life colours this fourth instalment of his study of sex..."

"The turbulent world of John of Gaunt, ‘the Red Prince’, is vividly chronicled..."