Some books are just so well written that it makes reading them almost like watching a film.  In Stalingrad Antony Beevor has produced such a book. You lose awareness that you have a book in your hand and you just picture what is going on in your head.   This is a book that is

The previous episodes in this three part series have told the story of how China came to be where it is today. This one tackles the question of where it is going next.

Roman Empire at Time of Julian the Apostate (thanks to Wikipedia) Rome grew to dominate the world under the republic. After the republic fell, the emperors for the most part were content to simply defend what they had. But the trhttp://historybooksreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/multiethnic-team-using-green-screen-tablet-to-over-MVKF9J9.jpgion of conquest continued. Claudius added Britain and Dacia and Mesopotamia were conquered by Trajan.

  ‘Better luck next time!’ – British sailors to Napoleon as he was transferred to the ship taking him to exile in St Helena.

The second programme in Niall Ferguson’s series on China opened with a chilling question. If we ask the Chinese to help with bail out western economies, does that mean that they will become our masters?  It is an interesting and sobering question.  But he then proceeded to spend the next hour answering a completely different

Growing up in the seventies I was a socialist.  I was a pretty moderate socialist, but a socialist nonetheless.  But as I thought things through and became more aware of how the world was, I began to realise that socialists had two huge problems.  The first was the USSR.  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics