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The Second World War by Antony Beevor – review
17 Jun 2012: Antony Beevor is authoritative and lucid in much of this mammoth history, but the size of the task sometimes proves too great, writes Ben Shephard
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Outstanding historian of the modern world with a trenchantly clear-sighted take on international politics -
Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950s
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Audio slideshow:
Ronald Reagan played a crucial role in sparking the wave of revolutions that swept eastern Europe in 1989, says Victor Sebestyn, but not the role picked out for him by his admirers
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Engels 's polemic against injustices continues to resonate around the world 150 years after it was written, argues Tristram Hunt
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19 Jun 2012:
By Victoria Segal
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19 Jun 2012: By PD Smith
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17 Jun 2012: Antony Beevor is authoritative and lucid in much of this mammoth history, but the size of the task sometimes proves too great, writes Ben Shephard
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15 Jun 2012: A fascinating account of Hatton Garden, a London street – and nexus of myths – integral to Britain's gem industry, writes Sukhdev Sandhu
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12 Jun 2012: A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured, writes Nicholas Lezard
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Audio
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20 Jun 2012:
Maya Jasanoff talks to Maev Kennedy about staying in the Room for London on the top of the South Bank Centre and reads her essay about the experience
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19 Jun 2012: The Irish writer's novel On Canaan's Side has won the 2012 award for historical fiction set at least 60 years in the past, writes Alison Flood
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19 Jun 2012:
Stella Tillyard explains how she moved from non-fiction to the world of the imagination
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18 Jun 2012: While 2012 Reith lecturer's views are defiantly at odds with the left, his grasp of economic history is admired even by critics
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17 Jun 2012: Other lives: Classics and business studies teacher with a passion for the local history of Huntingdonshire
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13 Jun 2012:
Cleopatra and King John also play a part in recent northern turnings of simple historical assumptions on their heads
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10 Jun 2012: A survey of great historical figures favours villainy over goodness, writes Peter Conrad
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10 Jun 2012: Despite the efforts of past regimes, modern Russia is still unwilling to acknowledge the butchery of Stalin's rule, writes John Kampfner
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10 Jun 2012:
Tim Jeal's story of how the greatest geographical mystery of the 19th century was solved is full of extraordinary characters, writes Anthony Sattin
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10 Jun 2012: Robert Macfarlane's exploration of our ties to the land's ancient pathways is a tour de force, writes William Dalrymple
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8 Jun 2012: The Second World War by Antony Beevor, The Lower River by Paul Theroux and In One Person by John Irving
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8 Jun 2012:
A detailed survey of Nazi architectural dreams impresses Chris Hall
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8 Jun 2012: Rana Mitter on a gripping account of a murder in China 75 years ago
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8 Jun 2012: Epic novel or biography on the grand scale? Giles Foden on a work that pulls off both
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Audio
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8 Jun 2012:
In an interview recorded last year, Barry Unsworth reads from and discusses his last novel, The Quality of Mercy, in which he returned to the story of his Booker-winning Sacred Hunger
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