Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
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Pamuk on the Eve
February 7, 2013
Silent House
by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn
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They Ate Their Sleep
May 24, 2012
The Hunger Angel
by Herta Müller, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
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How Millions Have Been Dying in the Congo
April 5, 2012
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
by Jason K. Stearns
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The Most Insidious Forgery
November 24, 2011
The Prague Cemetery
by Umberto Eco, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
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The Smell of Russia
November 25, 2010
Travels in Siberia
by Ian Frazier
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Love in a Moment of Hope
December 17, 2009
The Children’s Book
by A.S. Byatt
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London: A Pilgrim’s Progress
July 16, 2009
The Road Home
by Rose Tremain
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In a London of Infinite Possibilities
November 6, 2008
Something to Tell You
by Hanif Kureishi
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Do They Crave War?
November 8, 2007
Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
by Carolin Emcke
Another Bloody Love Letter
by Anthony Loyd
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A Far-Flung Correspondent
December 21, 2006
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
by David Remnick
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The Writer and the Tyrant
June 22, 2006
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
by Wole Soyinka
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Ghosts
March 23, 2006
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War
by Jean-Yves Le Naour, translated from the French by Penny Allen
Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield
by Max Hastings
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The Breaking of the Mau Mau
April 7, 2005
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
by David Anderson
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Africa: The Hard Truth
October 21, 2004
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by Howard W. French
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Forbidden Knowledge
April 29, 2004
A Distant Shore
by Caryl Phillips
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In the Black Garden
November 20, 2003
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
by Thomas de Waal
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope
by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller, with photographs by Jerry Berndt
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Goodbye to Berlin
April 10, 2003
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933
by Joseph Roth,translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
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At War with Stupidity
November 21, 2002
When Eve Was Naked: Stories of a Life’s Journey
by Josef Skvorecky
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Surviving for Art
April 11, 2002
The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki
by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, translated from the German by Ewald Osers
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In the Pit of History
June 21, 2001
The Shadow of the Sun Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska
Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa Ann Jones
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The Remains of der Tag
March 29, 2001
Whitehall and the Jews 1933–1948: British Immigration Policyand the Holocaust
Louise London
Farewell Leicester Square Betty Miller
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Under Siege
June 29, 2000
Ladysmith
by Giles Foden
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A Cup of Coffee
December 2, 1999
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Put Out More Flags
May 20, 1999
Anglomania: A European Love Affair by Ian Buruma
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On the Edge of Catastrophe
March 4, 1999
Secrets
by Nuruddin Farah
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A Murder in South Africa
May 14, 1998
The House Gun
by Nadine Gordimer
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Lost
January 15, 1998
As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood
by Blake Morrison
The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan
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Ceremony of Innocence
July 17, 1997
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Goodbye to Catholic Ireland by Mary Kenny
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The Man in the Otter Collar
November 28, 1996
Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast
by Tomas Venclova
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Africa’s Lost History
June 11, 1992
The African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Present by Roland Oliver
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham
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‘How to Leave a House of Slavery’
August 15, 1991
Solidarity, Solitude
by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Lillian Vallee
Between East and West: Writings from ‘Kultura’ edited by Robert Kostrzewa
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William Brand
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The Plight of Kosovo
April 11, 1991
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The Trial of Lithuania
April 26, 1990
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About the European House
September 28, 1989
Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Martin Chalmers
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Crackdown in Prague
April 13, 1989
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Inside the Whale
March 30, 1989
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places by Nadine Gordimer, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman
The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside by Stephen R. Clingman
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A Polish Hero
September 29, 1988
The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak by Betty Jean Lifton
King Matt the First by Janusz Korczak, translated by Richard Lourie, introduction by Bruno Bettelheim
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Betrayal
March 3, 1988
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
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Polish Nightmares
December 17, 1987
Moonrise, Moonset by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie
The Color of Blood by Brian Moore
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The Death Doctors
May 28, 1987
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
Mengele: The Complete Story by Gerald L. Posner, by John Ware
Auschwitz: An Eyewitness Account of Mengele’s Infamous Death Camp by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, translated by Tibère Kremer, by Richard Seaver, with a foreword by Bruno Bettelheim
Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum, introduction and notes by Jan G. Gaarlandt, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans
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The Last Idol
November 6, 1986
Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend by Philip Warner
The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle
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No Place for Them
February 27, 1986
The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century by Michael R. Marrus
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The Fire This Time
July 18, 1985
Waiting: The Whites of South Africa by Vincent Crapanzano
Freedom Rising by James North
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
by Breyten Breytenbach
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Children of the Cape
April 25, 1985
The Wall of the Plague: A Novel by André Brink
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The Alchemist
January 17, 1985
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
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Living in the Night
October 25, 1984
Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel by Breyten Breytenbach
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In Hell
July 19, 1984
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 19411943
translated by Arno Pomerans, with an introduction by J.G. Gaarlandt
The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm: The SS Doctor and the Children by Günther Schwarberg, translated by Erna Baber Rosenfeld, by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
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The Surprise of Solidarity
April 26, 1984
A Warsaw Diary, 19781981 by Kazimierz Brandys, translated by Richard Lourie
The First Polka by Horst Bienek, translated by Ralph R. Read
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The ‘Bildung’ of Barbie
November 24, 1983
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Fall of an Empire
August 18, 1983
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William R. Brand, by Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand
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That Old Czech Magic
September 23, 1982
The Questionnaire, or Prayer for a Town and a Friend by Jirí Grusa, translated by Peter Kussi
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Unspeakable News
October 22, 1981
Auschwitz and the Allies
by Martin Gilbert
The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler’s “Final Solution” by Walter Laqueur
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Growing Up Nazi
March 5, 1981
Ghost Waltz by Ingeborg Day
A Model Childhood by Christa Wolf
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A Successful Martyr
December 18, 1980
Olive Schreiner by Ruth First, by Ann Scott
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The Uprooted
August 14, 1980
Unsettling Europe by Jane Kramer
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Survivors
June 12, 1980
The House on Prague Street by Hana Demetz
The Missing Years by Walter Laqueur
The Half Jew by Robert Beauvais, translated by Harold J. Salemson
The Lead Soldiers by Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin
No. 12 Kaiserhofstrasse by Valentin Senger, translated by Ralph Manheim
Of Blood and Hope by Samuel Pisar
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Love and Revolution
March 6, 1980
Comrade and Lover: Rosa Luxemburg’s Letters to Leo Jogiches edited and translated by Elzbieta Ettinger
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The Bullet of Devolution
December 20, 1979
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The War that Made South Africa
December 6, 1979
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
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Upward to Defeat
October 11, 1979
Gladstone: A Progress in Politics
by Peter Stansky
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The Half-cracked Hero
August 16, 1979
The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon
by Charles Chenevix Trench
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Heroes
June 14, 1979
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There by Philip P. Hallie
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The Damned
April 5, 1979
Young Adolf
by Beryl Bainbridge
The Confessions of Josef Baisz by Dan Jacobson
King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust by Leslie Epstein
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Boys Will Beat Boys
September 28, 1978
The Old School Tie: The Phenomenon of the English Public School by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
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Are Ulstermen English?
June 15, 1978
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The Morose Revolution
May 4, 1978
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne
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Call for Chaos
March 9, 1978
The City Builder by George Konrád, translated by Ivan Sanders
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The Age of Arsenic
May 12, 1977
Victorian Murderesses
by Mary S. Hartman
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News from the Workshop
April 28, 1977
History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist Historians Issues One and Two
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Goodbye to All That
December 9, 1976
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon
The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis
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Battle over Monty
September 30, 1976
Montgomery of Alamein by Alun Chalfont
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South Africa’s White War
July 15, 1976
The Great Anglo-Boer War by Byron Farwell
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Graves Everywhere
May 27, 1976
A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by David Walsh, with an introduction by Leszek Kolakowski
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, selected and translated by Barbara Vedder, with an introduction by Jan Kott
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The Homecoming
March 18, 1976
Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
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Room at the Bottom
February 5, 1976
A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe text by John Berger, photographs by Jean Mohr
Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe by Stephen Castles, by Godula Kosack
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The Good War
January 22, 1976
The Second World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor
WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering by James Jones, by Art Weithas
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Taping Friday
September 18, 1975
Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales From Out of Africa collected by Peter Beard
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Liberation in Lisbon
March 20, 1975
The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters by Maria Isabel Barreno, by Maria Teresa Horta, by Maria Velho da Costa, translated by Helen R. Lane
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People in a Trap
August 8, 1974
Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, translated by Suzanne Rappaport, with an introduction by Philip Roth
Good Men Still Live! by Alan Levy
The Case Worker by George Konrád, translated by Paul Aston
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Triumph of the Will
April 18, 1974
Hitler by Joachim C. Fest, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality by Werner Maser, translated by Peter Ross, by Betty Ross
Hitler’s War Aims: The Establishment of the New Order by Norman Rich
The Evolution of Hitler’s Germany: The Ideology, the Personality, the Moment by Horst von Maltitz
Hitler Close-Up by Heinrich Hoffman, by Henry Picker, compiled by Jochen von Lang, translated by Nicholas Fry
Sieg Heil! An Illustrated History of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler by Stefan Lorant
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Mission Impossible
February 21, 1974
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
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Slug of Redemption
November 1, 1973
From the Diary of a Snail by Günter Grass
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Intolerable Memories
June 14, 1973
Judenrat
by Isaiah Trunk
Hunter and Hunted: Human History of the Holocaust selected and edited by Gerd Korman
October ‘43 by Aage Bertelsen, translated by Milly Lindholm
The Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies by Donald Kenrick, by Grattan Puxon
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The Man Who Came in from the Cold
April 19, 1973
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After the Czech “New Wave”
April 5, 1973
All the Bright Young Men and Women: A Personal History of the Czech Cinema by Josef Skvorecky
Political Grouping in the Czechoslovak Reform Movement by Vladimir V. Kusin
Reform Rule in Czechoslovakia: The Dubcek Era 1968-1969 by Galia Golan
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East Germany Lives
March 8, 1973
Honecker and the New Politics of Europe by Heinz Lippmann, translated by Helen Sebba
The Changing Party Elite in East Germany by Peter C. Ludz
Behind the Berlin Wall by Steven Kelman
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The Outlaw
November 30, 1972
Land Without Justice by Milovan Djilas, translated by Michael D. Petrovich
The Stone and the Violets by Milovan Djilas, translated by Lovett F. Edwards
Contemporary Yugoslav Literature by Sveta Lukić
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After the Earthquake
August 10, 1972
Die Meerschweinchen (The Guinea Pigs) by Ludvík Vaculík
Das Beil (The Axe) by Ludvík Vaculík
The Politics of Culture by Antonín J. Liehm
The Czechoslovak Reform Movement by Galia Golan
The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Its Effects on Eastern Europe edited by E. Czerwinski, edited by J. Piekalkiewicz
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Our Man in Pullach
June 1, 1972
The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen translated by David Irving
The General Was a Spy by Heinz Höhne, by Hermann Zolling, translated by Richard Barry
Gehlen, Spy of the Century by E.H. Cookridge
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Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik: What’s at Stake
April 20, 1972
Germany’s Ostpolitik by Lawrence L. Whetten
Germany in Our Time by Alfred Grosser
Britain and West Germany: Changing Societies and the Future of Foreign Policy edited by Karl Kaiser, edited by Roger Morgan
The Warsaw Pact: Case Studies in Communist Conflict Resolution by Robin Alison Remington
The Berlin Crisis: 1958-1962 by Jack M. Schick
Steinstücken. A Study in Cold War Politics by H.M. Catudal Jr.
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A Modern Instance
November 4, 1971
The Affair of Gabrielle Russier with a Preface by Raymond Jean, an Introduction by Mavis Gallant
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Idealism & Power
November 4, 1971
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Rebirth and Death in Czechoslovakia
September 2, 1971
Dubcek by William Shawcross
The Czechoslovak Experiment 1968-1969 by Ivan Sviták
Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution by Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis
A Year Is Eight Months: Czechoslovakia 1968 Journalist M.
Czechoslovakia Since World War II by Tad Szulc
Journal d’un contre-révolutionnaire (to be published in November by McGraw-Hill as Diary of a Counter Revolutionary, translated by Ruth Willard (256 pp., $6.95)) by Pavel Kohout
The Confession by Artur London, translated by Alastair Hamilton
Stalinism in Prague: The Loebl Story by Eugen Loebl, translated by Maurice Michael
The Czechoslovak Political Trials, 1950-1954: The Suppressed Report of the Dubcek Government’s Commission of Inquiry, 1968 edited by Jirí Pelikán
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Poland After the Uprising
July 1, 1971
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Down There on a Visit
April 8, 1971
The Red and the White: Report from a French Village by Edgar Morin, translated by A.M. Sheridan-Smith
The Other Germans: Report from an East German Town by Hans Axel Holm, translated by Thomas Teal
Ich bin Bürger der DDR und lebe in der Bundesrepublik by Barbara Grunert-Bronnen
After Hitler: A Report on Today’s West Germans by Jürgen Neven-Du Mont, translated by Ralph Manheim
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Heretics
November 19, 1970
The Cowards by Josef Skvorecký, translated by Jeanne Nemcová
Joseph by Mervyn Jones
Little Peter in War and Peace by Gerhard Zwerenz, translated by William Whitman
The Public Prosecutor
by Georgi Dzhagarov, adapted from the Bulgarian by C.P. Snow, by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Introduction by C.P. Snow
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Communist Dropouts
August 13, 1970
The Search for a Third Way by Heinz Brandt, with a Foreword by Erich Fromm
Our Own People by Elisabeth K. Poretsky
Men in Prison by Victor Serge
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Lenin Year
April 23, 1970
Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? by Andrei Amalrik
The New Russian Tragedy by Anatole Shub
The Demonstration in Pushkin Square by Pavel Litvinov
Message From Moscow An Observer
My Testimony by Anatoly Marchenko
Russia: Hopes And Fears by Alexander Werth
War Between Russia and China by Harrison E. Salisbury
The Masaryk Case by Claire Sterling
Report On My Husband by Josefa Slánská
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Raw Nerves
November 20, 1969
Speak Out! by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
Emergency Exit by Ignazio Silone, translated by Harvey Fergusson II
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The Rise and Fall of the Czech Rebellion
June 19, 1969
The Seventh Night by Ladislav Mnacko
The Czech Black Book Sciences compiled by the Historical Section of the Czechoslovak Academy of, edited by Robert Littell
The Voices by Joseph Wechsberg
Prague’s Two Hundred Days by Harry Schwartz
Prague Spring: A Report on Czechoslovakia 1968 by Z.A.B. Zeman
Plan and Market Under Socialism by Ota Sik
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Under Eastern Eyes
May 8, 1969
Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
Seesaw: Cultural Life in Eastern Europe by Yorick Blumenfeld
Polish Writing Today edited by Celina Wieniawska
New Writing of East Europe edited by George Gömöri, edited by Charles Newman
Poland, Eagle in the East by William Woods
Soviet-East European Dialogue: International Relations of a New Type? by Nish Jamgotch Jr.
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Survivors
January 2, 1969
Living and Partly Living by Jiri Mucha
Legends of Our Time by Elie Wiesel
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
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Breakdown
August 22, 1968
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High on Guilt
August 1, 1968
Aden, Arabie by Paul Nizan, with a Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Joan Pinkham
Confessions of a Disloyal European by Jan Myrdal
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Unmodern Men
February 1, 1968
Society and Democracy in Germany by Ralf Dahrendorf
Between Eagle and Swastika: German Nationalism Since 1945 by Kurt P. Tauber
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Poisoned Cities
November 9, 1967
Birth of Our Power by Victor Serge, translated by Richard Greeman
The Third Book about Achim by Uwe Johnson
Night Falls on the City by Sarah Gainham
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Ghosts
September 14, 1967
Journey Through a Haunted Land: The New Germany by Amos Elon
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Chronicles of the Holocaust
June 1, 1967
Treblinka by Jean-François Steiner, Preface by Simone de Beauvoir
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe edited and translated by Yuri Suhl
Resistance Against Tyranny edited by Eugene Heimler
The Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs by Simon Wiesenthal, edited by Joseph Wechsberg
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“Progress, Not Politics”
March 9, 1967
The Muted Revolution: East Germany’s Challenge to Russia and the West by Welles Hangen
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Intoxicated With War
October 6, 1966
Heroes’ Twilight: A Study of the Literature of the Great War by Bernard Bergonzi
Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War edited by I.M. Parsons
The Long Trail: What the British Soldier Sang and Said in 1914-18 by John Brophy, by Eric Partridge
A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman
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Senior Citizens
July 7, 1966
Wohin treibt die Bundesrepublik? by Karl Jaspers
Memoirs 1945-53 by Konrad Adenauer
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Master Spy
May 12, 1966
The Case of Richard Sorge by F.W. Deakin, by G.R. Storry
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Whose Germany?
March 31, 1966
The Unloved Germans by Hermann Eich
The Grand Design: A European Solution to German Reunification by Franz-Josef Strauss
Germany Between East and West: The Reunification Problem by Frederick H. Hartmann
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Ataturk
June 3, 1965
Ataturk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey by Lord Kinross
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The Lion of Judah
May 20, 1965
Haile Selassie: The Conquering Lion by Leonard Mosley
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After the Final Solution
April 8, 1965
The House of Ashes by Oscar Pinkus
The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat
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The House of Napoleon
December 31, 1964
The Golden Bees: The Story of the Bonapartes by Theo Aronson
Napoleon and Josephine by Frances Mossiker
The Empress Eugenie by Harold Kurtz
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His Watery Beer
October 8, 1964
Rupert Brooke by Christopher Hassall
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King Tum
June 11, 1964
King Edward the Seventh by Sir Philip Magnus
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The Playing Fields
May 14, 1964
Gentlemanly Power: British Leadership and the Public School System by Robert Wilkinson
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T. E. Lawrence
February 6, 1964
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers by Robert Graves, by B.H. Liddell Hart
338171, T.E. Lawrence of Abrabia by Victoria Ocampo, translated by David Garnett
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The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
December 26, 1963
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The Queen of Hearts
December 12, 1963
Queen Victoria’s Early Letters edited by John Raymond