Book Review

Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street

British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness

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

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

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

Mr Heffer has produced a monumental second volume on Henry ‘Chips’ Channon to match his first

Here are three of our most praised writers with new offerings written during one or more lockdowns and that also take in the pandemic in their subject matter

This magnificent one volume history details the tumultuous days of the Indian army in the jungles of Burma