Books

How Wokeism tries (and succeeds) at filling a religion-shaped void within the American left’s psyche

These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war

As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder

An engaging and thoroughly readable new biography on Boris Savinkov

Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas

Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed

Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism

An author challenges her nation’s collective and individual self-deceptions

This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader

It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet