Norway’s War: Masterly account of a lesser-known part of the second World War
Many remarkable stories other than that of Vidkun Quisling
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A Gerges – engaging read for seasoned observers
The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina: Valuable, vivid, frustrating
A worthy contribution to a growing body of literary reportage on the war in Ukraine
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same
I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again: Account by daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot contains chilling detail
Caroline Darian’s book is an uncomfortable read, albeit one with great immediacy, that is let down at times by its translation
Kaput. The End of the German Miracle: Acerbic chronicle of a country’s fall from grace
Former Financial Times journalist explains failures and fallacies that caused his country to lose its way
The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future – Does China have an appetite to take its ultimate prize by force?
Brown observes that securing Taiwan may be far too big a risk for the Chinese Communist Party, which values stability above all else
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe - nuanced, frank, remarkable
A careful and pointed portrait of sentiment in wartime Ukraine that shows the country is not quite as it is viewed in the West
The Red Emperor. Xi Jinping and the New China: An exceptional Machiavellian operator
A hard-drinking womaniser whose political skills have not been matched by competence in governance?
Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic by Nabila Ramdani – A persuasive case
The author cites the military coup mounted in Algiers on May 13th, 1958, as the source of many of the problems that beset France today
Massacre in the Clouds: it is a fine work and will go some way to restoring this incident to the mainstream of history
The title is a pointed correction of the misnomer ‘the battle above the clouds’, by which the slaughter was known at the time
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?; Hope and Despair: Israel’s Future in the New Middle East; Hamas: The Quest for Power; Blindness: October 7 and the Left
Oliver Farry on What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh & Hope and Despair: Israel's Future in the New Middle East by Michael A Horowitz; Hamas: The Quest for Power; Hadley Freeman Blindness: October 7 and the Left
The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson: Splendid and compulsively readable despite one weakness
Magisterial accounts of four cataclysmic case studies make this a must for anyone with an interest in ancient and premodern history
Private Equity by Carrie Sun: A tale of corporate burnout
Most observers of this condition will sense what lies in store but our narrator has a beatific view of the corporate world
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-First Century review: Deft analysis that takes in author’s family history
Tobias Buck digs into how Germany dragged its feet on denazification and prosecutions for decades after war