Does Roberts ever sleep? Here is a large biography of the founder of modern journalism, who began both the Daily Mail and Daily Express, and who also owned the Sunday Times and the Obs... read more
The first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his student days at Cambridge, grappling with the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality and the formation of a ... read more
An account of the Cairo Conference, in which the map of the Middle East was redrawn, establishing the states of Iraq and Jordan and confirming a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Many readers will remember Daniel Yergin's brilliant history of oil Prize, but that was 30 years ago and things look pretty different now. Here is the backdrop to Marriott & Macalister's sup... read more