Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; Drawing on Moorehead's diaries and correspondence, as well as interviews with his family and friends, Tom Pocock tells the story of a thrilling, but ultimately tragic, life.  Meer

A brilliant, classic account of the Russian Revolution. Still the most readable history of the revolution, which sheds light on the Western view of the Soviet Union at the time.  Meer