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James Marriott and Terry Macalister's new book  Crude Britannia could be described as the post-war history of the relationship between t...

When I was a space-obsessed teenager in the 1980s I loved The Right Stuff film. I watched it multiple times glorying in the realistic portra...

Going on the title alone a casual browser in a bookshop might assume that Peter Linebaugh 's latest work is a book about climate change....

This book collects a long essay by French Marxist Daniel Bensaïd on the nature of property and ownership with several famous articles by Kar...

Frederik Pohl is a remarkable novel, but there was a fatal problem with it that I will mention in this review. This is, essentially, a spoil...

Completely unexpectedly I found myself reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited after it was recommended to me as the quintessential...

A few months ago I read Naomi Mitchison 's memoires of her wartime experience in Scotland, Among You Taking Notes . It was a fascinating...

A recent watching of the full 3 hours and 39 minute version of Heaven's Gate led me into a deep dive into the history of the film. Heav...

In the 2016 US election, 62 percent of rural voters voted for Donald Trump, compared to 25 percent of those in urban areas. Robert Wuthnow p...

At the start of this novel Peter Sinclair is twenty-nine years old. At times during what follows the only certainty that Peter has about him...

Over 30,000 members of the Merchant Navy lost their lives during World War Two. Most of their names are inscribed on the Tower Hill memorial...

At the end of 2011, the annual United Nations climate conference took place in Durban, South Africa. COP17 was another showcase event for th...

This is an important and timely book. Published in the aftermath of a historic success for the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the May 2021...

After finding the first two volumes of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy unsatisfactory and unpleasant, I was intent on reading the thi...

Volume two of the Berlin Noir trilogy featuring Philip Kerr's detective Bernie Gunther is similar to the first. While women still, impr...

Many people have recommended Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther detective novels to me. Most of them are set in Berlin during, or after, the T...

Authors Paul Lund and Harry Ludlam are best known for their oral history works about the British Navy in World War Two. Lund served on a con...