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History must at least be readable if we’re to learn anything from it

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past Richard Cohen

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp.753, 25

Richard Cohen was once one of our foremost book editors as well as being an Olympic sabre champion. Since moving to New York 20 years ago he has turned author himself, writing books on Tolstoy, the sun and his own sport of swordsmanship. Now he focuses his attention on historians.

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