Reviews

Some 110,000 Jews left Iraq in 1950 and 1951 – a Jewish community that could trace its origins back to the Babylonians.

The suggestion that Russia has become an Orwellian tyranny is an inadequate explanation as to why the country finds itself in its present situation.

A part-memoir, part-historical exploration of British Second World War masculinity and sexuality.

The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.

An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.

A new account of some of the most exciting, terrible and important years in English history.

An account of the sex lives of European intellectuals is full of gossip – and as shallow as the society pages.

Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.

Great cities more than a mile long, ‘banquette houses’, elephants, and birds with heads ‘as big as a man’s: the journey of David Ingram.

Is it time to say goodbye to Eastern Europe, a world remade so frequently by empires, war and political ideologies that it scarcely stays the same for two generations in a row?