A leading Central European journalist investigates how political and intellectual elites in Europe’s democracies underestimate and enable the continent’s authoritarians—from the Cold War onwards.
Why has Russia’s military struggled to adapt to the challenges of contemporary warfare?
A fascinating study of the British Empire’s Middle Eastern intelligence section during the First World War, drawing on government files and secret publications.
The remarkable story of the last Ottoman Caliph, exiled by Atatürk, who tried to recreate the Caliphate in the Indian princely state of Hyderabad.
An indispensable political history of independent Sri Lanka, from the post-war years to the 2022 uprising.
This new history reveals that the Baltic States were as fiercely contested between the Germans and Russians as any flashpoint of the Second World War.
A shrewd, unsentimental inspection of the archives, laying bare the charge-sheet against the British and their economic policy in India: the numbers don’t lie.
From climate change to far-right politics, a captivating look at the Netherlands’ modern challenges—and a homage to the timeless ingenuity of the Dutch.
A revelatory journey into the Spanish Civil War's physical and visual legacies, investigating how conflict is memorialised, and obscured, today.