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"The dazzling story of the slave turned general who led Haiti’s revolt against France..."

"an ambitious book that explains the rise of Ronald Reagan..."

"This superb biography saves the reputation of the long-serving foreign secretary..."

"I don’t doubt Toksvig’s sincerity or enthusiasm, but I do doubt her stamina and diligence..."

"a curator’s impassioned polemic calling for Britain’s museums to restore exhibits to their country of origin..."

"Every page of The Time Traveller’s Guide To Regency Britain is crammed with enlightening information about the period, some of it just plain weird...."

"Every page of The Time Traveller’s Guide To Regency Britain is crammed with enlightening information..."

"explores similarities between the tyrants from Germany and Soviet Union..."

"What a curate’s egg of a book. Parts I found intriguing, parts I found blasé..."

"(An) engaging history of 19th-century working-class family economics..."

"her well-researched book..."

"a splendidly well-written page-turner..."

"This richly detailed study of British food and its relation to social class is truly delectable..."

"This anthology of wartime Mass Observation diaries is exquisitely moving – and strangely timely..."

"Catelli presents his thesis as an artless spy story..."

"(a) powerful history of the struggle to abolish slavery in the West Indies..."

"Magnificent and readable history..."

"Though outsiders, they were hardly auditioning to live on Planet Woke..."

"This lively history of London’s stations is full of nerdy detail..."

"this book performs the essential task of challenging established stereotypes and querying a host of lazy assumptions, the prime duty of any historian..."

"Isolationism arrives at a prescient moment as Biden stands to unstitch Trump’s “America First” handiwork..."

"A new book about the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution sheds fascinating new light on Allied attempts to effect regime change in Moscow..."

"Marina Wheeler tells the story of her much-loved Sikh-born mother and the loss of her home in the dislocation and violence that marked the birth of Pakistan, in spare, lyrical prose..."

"A new biography looks at seven rakes of the Ancien Regime who were splendidly stylish – and surprisingly self-aware..."

"It will get people talking..."

"this celebration of amateur dramatics shows we've always been a theatre-loving country..."

"the remarkable life of John Steinbeck..."

"his industriously researched and usually shrewd book..."

"In its often tearful compassion, its eloquent rage and its vengeful delight in proletarian snook-cocking, Oh Happy Day deserves to be called Dickensian..."

"Wilkinson never shies away from the truth..."

"A lively study of port cities and globalisation in the age of steam-driven technology..."

"Levenson provides a vivid account of the development of share trading ..."