War: How Conflict Shaped Us, by Margaret MacMillan
A. W. Purdue is impressed by a dazzling analysis of the human capacity for violence and how it has moulded our lives
Search
Professional Articles
-
-
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News, by Richard Toye
A. W. Purdue considers how Britain’s wartime prime minister was a lifelong master at keeping himself in the public eye
-
The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists, and Secularisation, 1945-1980, by Callum G. Brown
A. W. Purdue is sceptical about an analysis of the great debates about sexual and other freedoms that marked the dawn of a more permissive era