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
A. W. Purdue is impressed by a dazzling analysis of the human capacity for violence and how it has moulded our lives
A. W. Purdue considers how Britain’s wartime prime minister was a lifelong master at keeping himself in the public eye
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
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue is impressed by a bold attempt to rethink the relationship between solidarity and ambition
A.W. Purdue is unconvinced by an attempt to put military planning on a more scientific footing
Book of the week: Changes to methods of military leadership raise questions of who’s the boss, finds A. W. Purdue
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue finds a work that combines military and social history to be gripping and poignant
Book of the week: A. W. Purdue on an argument that relocates the roots of modern Britain in the post-war period
A. W. Purdue ponders a historical comparison of advisers to the world’s movers and shakers
Book of the week: Only once has a supreme global power peacefully ceded its reign to another, A. W. Purdue writes
A. W. Purdue on a study that views the drink as the centrepiece of a new international economy
A. W. Purdue chews over a grim account of how civilised nature crumbles when starvation looms
Book of the week: A history of famous liberals shows how global conflict shaped them and us, writes A. W. Purdue