Abyss by Max Hastings
The “heart-stopping story” of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been “told many times before”, said Saul David in The Daily Telegraph. But never has it...
Adventures in recovering wild places
Patagonia’s Atlantic shoreAlong the coast of Argentine Patagonia, the distances seem “fathomless”, the landscape, “timeless” – and few places on Earth are as beautiful or...
The Koh-i-Noor: a 105-carat controversy
The Koh-i-Noor “is neither the biggest diamond in the world, nor the most beautiful”, said Anita Anand in The Guardian. But it is “arguably the...
Three Times a Countess by Tina Gaudoin
Raine Spencer is chiefly remembered as “Princess Diana’s ‘wicked stepmother’”, said Marcus Berkmann in the Daily Mail. In the 1980s, she became a “tabloid hate...