International History

'Joyous ... a book that makes other journalists weep with envy' The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account' Sunday Times One of The Economist's best books by foreign correspondents.

One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong brilliantly reveals the contradictions and comedy, past and present, of Eritrea.

Operation Mincemeat. The German Abwehr. MI5. D-Day Normandy Landings. Executed German spies at Wandsworth Prison.

For the last century, financial crash after financial crash has sent shockwaves through our world. It's time we learned from them.

A fascinating look into a collection of Georgian recipes and medicines

Just Catholic: The Future is Now is a collection of essays written over a period of eight years by Phyllis Zagano, world expert on women in the diaconate. Zagano addresses an astounding range of topics that many in the Church fear to raise. She pulls no punches, yet charitably and intelligently argues for a more ‘just’ Church.

Did Lenin really create the nation of Ukraine with a stroke of his pen? Was even its greatest hero in fact a Nazi? Just what does it owe to the benevolence of Catherine the Great? Whatever else it is, the Russian invasion has been an assault on historical truth - a mythic struggle in the name of an imperial unity that is itself no more than a myth. Yet the lies didn't start in 2022, and the truth of Ukrainian history has always been slipperier than any simple patriot might wish.