Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners

This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book

Grande dame

Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions

Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting

Memories of unforgiving urban combat in a tank

How can we secure the legacy of Roger Scruton?

Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave

A bibliophile carries books like memories

Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience