A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine - a lucid, at times hectoring, short read
Ex-NYT correspondent argues passionately for the Palestinian cause and excoriates US authorities over blind support for Israel
Shattered Lands. Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia: Wonderful telling of a sad history
Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan
Genocide in Gaza: three new books take stock
Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar
Vikings in the East by Martyn Whittock: Well-researched account let down by attempt to make sense of Putin’s invasion
Historian’s examination of Russia and Ukraine’s shared origins succeeds to a point
Norway’s War: Masterly account of a lesser-known part of the second World War
Many remarkable stories other than that of Vidkun Quisling
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A Gerges – engaging read for seasoned observers
The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina: Valuable, vivid, frustrating
A worthy contribution to a growing body of literary reportage on the war in Ukraine
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same
I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again: Account by daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot contains chilling detail
Caroline Darian’s book is an uncomfortable read, albeit one with great immediacy, that is let down at times by its translation
Kaput. The End of the German Miracle: Acerbic chronicle of a country’s fall from grace
Former Financial Times journalist explains failures and fallacies that caused his country to lose its way
The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future – Does China have an appetite to take its ultimate prize by force?
Brown observes that securing Taiwan may be far too big a risk for the Chinese Communist Party, which values stability above all else
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe - nuanced, frank, remarkable
A careful and pointed portrait of sentiment in wartime Ukraine that shows the country is not quite as it is viewed in the West
The Red Emperor. Xi Jinping and the New China: An exceptional Machiavellian operator
A hard-drinking womaniser whose political skills have not been matched by competence in governance?
Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic by Nabila Ramdani – A persuasive case
The author cites the military coup mounted in Algiers on May 13th, 1958, as the source of many of the problems that beset France today
Massacre in the Clouds: it is a fine work and will go some way to restoring this incident to the mainstream of history
The title is a pointed correction of the misnomer ‘the battle above the clouds’, by which the slaughter was known at the time