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The title is a pointed correction of the misnomer ‘the battle above the clouds’, by which the slaughter was known at the time
Oliver Farry on What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh & Hope and Despair: Israel's Future in the New Middle East by Michael A Horowitz; Hamas: The Quest for Power; Hadley Freeman Blindness: October 7 and the Left
Magisterial accounts of four cataclysmic case studies make this a must for anyone with an interest in ancient and premodern history
Most observers of this condition will sense what lies in store but our narrator has a beatific view of the corporate world
Tobias Buck digs into how Germany dragged its feet on denazification and prosecutions for decades after war
This outstanding book details the privations and inconveniences that beset a population under constant attack, and also the psychological torment the situation engenders
A splendid portrait of layers of identity and resistance in what is no less a settler society than the United States
This is a much-needed retelling of the first year of the invasion, even as the passage of time seems to favour the Russians
The former BBC correspondent shrewdly puts Kenya’s history in the context of the wider wave of decolonisation sweeping the world
Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni; I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger; Lovers in Auschwitz by Karen Blankfeld; and One Life by Barbara Winton
More casual readers will find Going Infinite a bit of a slog because it goes into the weeds of the world of cryptocurrencies and presumes prior familiarity with it on the part of the reader
A fervent supporter of the EU, Garton Ash is still critical of its missteps, and while he has a clear affection for Europe, he is not misty-eyed about it
An important testimony to one of the greatest humanitarian outrages of our time
A ‘man of faith’ and that faith is the chinese Communist Party
How trade expansion into Central Asia has built ‘China’s Inadvertent Empire’