Charles Darwin was a kind and polite man, but his take on evolution led to social Darwinism and the Nazis.
The general who commanded Saddam Hussein's troops during the First Gulf War was a fundamentally decent man caught in a web of corruption.
As a young and fanatical Maoist, Jan Wong betrayed a friend during the Cultural Revolution. Decades later she discovers what happened.
A deeply moving historical novel about the conflict between Christian culture and the seductive ideology of pagan Nazism.
The world's most amazing migration is the perilous journey from the centre of Africa to Italy.
A well-spoken toff attempts to fathom the meaning of work but only reveals his outsider status.
How did the Britain of the stiff upper lip evolve into a nation of self-centred decadence?
Death row in a Texas prison is an unlikely place to become a man of forgiveness, compassion and generosity. But Dominique Green managed.
The inimitable dance routines of Fred Astaire brought joy to the world in the midst of the Great Depression.
Understanding our irrational desire for more, more, more is the first step to a cure.
We share 98% of our genes with chimpanzees. Why does that piddling 2% make us so different?
A short list which includes Elvis and Casanova along with Napoleon and Confucius seems rather eccentric.
A father’s struggle to understand the point of his daughter’s short, totally dependent life.
A new and monumental history of an empire built on hokum, hypocrisy and high-mindedness.
Some of the most disastrous ideas of the 20th century were nourished by the ideas of Charles Darwin.
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