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Every correspondent in Moscow wanted to be the first to find Solzhenitsyn after he won the Nobel Prize in 1970. Michael Johnson had that honor - but the great Russian writer wasn’t altogether pleased so see him.
Read MoreTo the long list of potential explanations for the fall of Rome, a gripping new book adds one more: climate change.
Read MoreThe battle of Passchendaele is remembered as one of the most futile and horrific of the First World War. A new history by Nick Lloyd searches for some method behind the mud and madness.
Read MoreHow did Donald Trump, a vacuous, bigoted sociopath, get to the White House? He did it by being himself.
Read MoreVeteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.
Read MoreFormer newscaster and sports commentator Keith Olbermann is a new star of YouTube for his strident opposition to President Trump; his new book provides the transcript.
Read MoreA sprawling new history of Iran from the 16th century to the present brings the multi-faceted story of Persia alive.
Read MoreA big, lively new history assesses the troubled life and blighted nature of Bolshevism.
Read MoreThe grand, global history of Communism's century-long reign of terror is the subject of A. James McAdams' authoritative new book.
Read MoreFormer finance minister for Greece Yanis Varoufakis has written a book about his time on the world stage during his country's financial crisis.
Read MoreIt wasn't a fat, sick, wife-killing madman who came to the English throne in 1509 - as a new book reminds readers, it was a glorious teenage prince.
Read MoreLong before Hollywood came calling, the 300,000 soldiers at Dunkirk were just trying to make it home alive. A new history by Joshua Levine retells the story of Britain's most harrowing hour.
Read MoreBestselling author of Tudor historical fiction Philippa Gregory takes up the familiar tragedy of Lady Jane Grey - and her forgotten but equally compelling sisters - in her new book, as A Year with the Tudors II continues.
Read MoreA century ago this year, the American Expeditionary Force set off for Europe to end all wars. Andrew Carroll's new book looks at the lives of the men who faced the Great War, and the enigmatic general who led them.
Read MoreBatman and Inception director Christopher Nolan's latest film is a sprawling WWII epic about the desperate heroism of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Read MoreHer remarkable bittersweet memoir reveals Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer as a shrewd anthropologist of wartime America.
Read MoreWhat compromises did women in Tudor England face? What joys? What prospects, if any, for fulfillment? A sweeping new history cross-sections the issue.
Read MoreA gripping new history tells the story of the seized and renamed German luxury liner that became a US troop transport during the First World War.
Read MoreAs she did with Katherine of Aragon, Alison Weir gives Anne Boleyn the saintly treatment in her new novel. But does Anne, like Katherine, deserve it?
Read MoreMargaret Douglas was the niece of Henry VIII - and a tireless, lifelong schemer and rule-breaker. A definitive new biography portrays the life of the woman who was almost Queen Margaret
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