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  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Russia: Revolution and Civil War by Antony Beevor — monsters of the past

    The military historian’s account of the Bolsheviks’ rise and the ensuing turmoil spares no sensitivities

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Geography Is Destiny by Ian Morris — Brexit’s deep historical roots

    A persuasive study dusts off the maps in going back millennia to unravel Britain’s relationship with Europe

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    In the Shadow of the Gods — when emperors claimed a divine right to rule

    Dominic Lieven takes in empires from Mughal to British and asks: what made them the dominant form of government for centuries?

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ObituaryLeonid Kravchuk
    Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1934-2022

    Ukraine’s first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

    An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Review
    Nine Quarters of Jerusalem — a cycle of destruction and reconstruction

    Matthew Teller’s history disputes simplistic division of the Old City into four areas — and laments present-day tensions

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

    As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Alice’s Book by Karina Urbach — the recipes stolen by the Nazis

    A moving account of the 80-year quest to restore a Jewish writer’s name to a bestselling Viennese cooking guide

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Shadowlands — a 5,000-year journey through Britain’s lost settlements

    Matthew Green’s time-trip through vanished towns and cities offers an urgent reminder of what may lie ahead

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order — an instant classic

    Gary Gerstle’s economic history is essential reading for learning how we arrived at a reckoning with capitalism

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Dinner with Joseph Johnson — portrait of a revolutionary bookseller

    Daisy Hay brings to vivid life the publisher who befriended some of the 18th century’s most radical figures

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Visions of France: land, liberté and literary salons

    As the French elect their president, Graham Robb and Peter Watson offer contrasting views of what shapes the national narrative

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Horizons — a radical retelling of the history of science

    James Poskett challenges the traditional Eurocentric narrative and highlights vital contributions from across the globe

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Vasily Grossman
    Soviet writer Vasily Grossman and the ‘ruthless truth’ of war

    The clear-eyed chronicler of the darkest days of 20th-century history is startlingly relevant for the war in Ukraine

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Russia, Ukraine and Europe’s 200-year quest for peace

    Generations of leaders have wrestled over a lasting settlement in Europe. What can today’s negotiators learn from centuries of statecraft?

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    Legacy of Violence — the bloody ends of empire

    Pulitzer-winning Caroline Elkins’ deeply researched account seeks to finally dispel the myth of benevolent British imperialism

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    This Mortal Coil — matters of life, death and longevity

    Andrew Doig’s compelling history of how we die and the scientific advances that arm us against disease

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Review
    Oceans of Grain — America, Russia and Ukraine’s breadbasket in flames

    Scott Reynolds Nelson’s history of the global wheat trade is a timely warning of how basic food exports can shape empires

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    Review
    Extreme North by Bernd Brunner — a voyage through an imagined past

    This collection of curiosities explores how the region has been romanticised — for both good and bad

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    We Need Snowflakes — the case for the sensitive and the offended

    Hannah Jewell’s book tackles an insult emblematic of our polarised age — but can she convince the critics of ‘woke’?

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    An Irish future — and the weight of history

    Three new books examine the violently fraught ties between England and its island neighbour and the prospects of unification

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    ReviewArts books
    Denim and Leather — how the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was forged

    Michael Hann’s entertaining history charts the rise and fall of an influential musical movement

  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Review
    The Global Merchants by Joseph Sassoon — family fortunes

    The rise and fall of the dynasty, from opium traders to the British upper classes, has resonance for today’s super-rich

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Review
    The Stasi Poetry Circle — a cold war of words

    Philip Oltermann’s absorbing portrait of bizarre East German efforts to harness creative writing as a weapon against capitalism

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    Review
    The Georgians — the age that shaped Britain, for good and bad

    Historian Penelope J Corfield on a ‘long century’ of reason, science, empire and enslavement

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