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The cultural and political history of the watershed decade of the 20th century, as told by the New Yorker.The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli …

‘The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.’ Philip Haythornthwaite&# …

The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of th …

On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." …

Some art lessons can inspire. Others are useless or even harmful. Eli Levin has written an amusing recollection of his art-student years and subsequent development. We witness his struggles to overco …

A "poignant" collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus-a town in Indiana-from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times).For countless Ch …

Entering the unforgiving drug underworld of South Freeland, Sonny, a former narcotics cop, is reinstated and dispatched to penetrate the city’s prominent dope circle where he will uncover a new threa …

How will the Covid-19 pandemic be remembered? What did it mean to people? How did it feel? This book provides a compelling account of the pandemic as it was experienced in the UK. Everyday Life in th …

Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith’s early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December …