The director of the Bodleian includes some of the US president’s deleted tweets in an historical survey that ranges from the Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers. The surprise is that the book is not much thicker, but perhaps that’s because he feels his book needs to be read, and its implications understood.
Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
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A superb account of how European imperialism in Asia was undermined by a network of ingenious radicals, who used printing presses, global travel and the colonisers' languages to spread their... read more
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Cities, economies and national infrastructures of every kind were reduced to rubble by the end of WW2. Betts looks at the efforts made by western European countries to rebuild their societi... read more
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This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
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A new assessment of Alan Brooke, first Viscount Alanbrooke, which examines his treatment at the hands of historians as well as his importance to Churchill.