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Small but deadly: postcards that fuelled the Russian Revolution
In this handsomely illustrated book Tobie Mathew makes a case for the lowly postcard’s role in the politicisation of pre-revolutionary…
The cruel end of Emmanuel Barthélemy –as a waxwork in the Chamber of Horrors
This is a biography that begins with a bang, swiftly followed by puddles of blood, shrieks of ‘Murder!’ and a…
1956: the year of living dangerously
The book of the year has long been a favoured genre in popular history, and is a commonplace today. While…
For Egypt, a bitter winter has followed the Arab spring
Jack Shenker is a throwback to an older, more romantic age when foreign correspondents were angry, partisan and half-crazed with…
How a clumsy drummer started the 1848 revolutions
There are hundreds of resounding ideas and shrewd precepts in Adam Zamoyski’s temperate yet splendidly provocative Phantom Terror. This is…
The Russian literary celebrity who begged Tolstoy to spare Prince Andrei
Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya was a literary celebrity in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg. She chose the pen-name ‘Teffi’ because it was androgynous,…
A horse ride from Buenos Aires to New York? No problem!
Aimé Tschiffely was what I have seen in other contexts called a ‘doublehard bastard’. In the middle of the 1920s,…
From Nasser to Mubarak — Egypt's modern pharaohs and their phoney myths
Reporting Egypt’s revolution three years ago, I had a sense of history not so much repeating itself as discharging sparks…
Syria’s war in miniature: meeting the Christians driven out of Qusayr
Beirut Ilyas was, he told me, the very last Christian to flee Qusayr. He had been one of just a…
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