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Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, and the novel Death of the Fronsac, among other books. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. (December 2021)
Grand Illusion
Armed with only a Ouija board, two British officers attempted an eccentric and devious escape from a Turkish prisoner of war camp.
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
by Margalit Fox
December 2, 2021 issue
Into the Wrecks
What do sunken ships reveal about the history of war at sea?
War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Cold War
by James P. Delgado
July 22, 2021 issue
A Mess of Tiny Principalities
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country
by Simon Winder
December 19, 2019 issue
The Value of Independence
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion
by J.H. Elliott
April 18, 2019 issue
In Search of Britannia
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
by Graham Robb
November 22, 2018 issue
By the Skin of Our Teeth
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
by Benn Steil
May 24, 2018 issue
Death in Trieste
Blameless
by Claudio Magris, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel
February 8, 2018 issue
Corrective Affinities
Tumult
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated from the German by Mike Mitchell
New Selected Poems
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated from the German by David Constantine, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger, and Esther Kinsky
Mr Zed’s Reflections: or Breadcrumbs He Dropped, Gathered Up by His Listeners
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated from the German by Wieland Hoban
Writing with the Words of Others: Essays on the Poetry of Hans Magnus Enzensberger
by Alan J. Clayton
October 26, 2017 issue
Which John le Carré?
John le Carré: The Biography
by Adam Sisman
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
by John le Carré
October 13, 2016 issue
Jews: Ambivalent and Admirable
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
by Ian Buruma
February 25, 2016 issue
Pamuk on the Eve
Silent House
by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn
February 7, 2013 issue
They Ate Their Sleep
The Hunger Angel
by Herta Müller, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
May 24, 2012 issue
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