This preview highlights titles to be published in October


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on new and overlooked evidence from ancient sites across the world to decentralise familiar Western narratives and focus on indigenous perspectives, and overturn our assumptions about the progress of civilisa- tions in the process.


with page-by-page inter- pretation by Professor Longerich.


Stuart Jeffries Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Post-Modern Verso, HB, £20, 9781788738224 Where did postmodern ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In this “brilliant history of a dangerous idea”, Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continues today, through a “riotous gallery” of individuals, including David Bowie, Madonna, Margaret Thatcher, Jean Baudrillard and many more.


Memorial International & Georgia Thomson (trans) OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany Granta, 7th, HB, £20, 9781783785278 An Ostarbeiter was an “Eastern Worker”, rounded up as forced labour by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. This is an extraordinary collection of testimonies by such work- ers, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and more than 300,000 letters.


edition of the Oxford English Dictionary—to document changes in the English language from the outbreak of war in 1914 to 1919. Terms such as trench warfare and shellshock all drew his attentive gaze.


David Owen Riddle, Mystery and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of Britain- Russia Relations Haus, 25th, HB, £20, 9781913368395 The former foreign secretary with an account of the “surprisingly unexplored” history of diplomatic, military and geopolitical relations between Britain and Russia, released at a time when those rela- tions are at a historic low. Accordingly, Owen explains the unique nature of Putin’s autocracy, and addresses Britain’s return to “blue water diplomacy”.


Greg Jenner Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know Weidenfeld, 28th, HB, £14.99, 9781474618618 Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Who was the richest person of all time? The author, historian and host of BBC podcasts “You’re Dead to Me” and “Homeschool History” provides answers to these and other genuine questions from the public. The result is a roller-coaster ride through history, I’m told.


Peter Longerich Wannsee OUP, 14th, HB, £20, 9780198834045 This complete story of the Wannsee Conference in 1942, which paved the way for the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”, includes the official record


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Allan Mallinson The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand Bantam Press, 21st, HB, £25, 9781787632417 The distinguished military historian tells the stories of six defin- ing battles—Hastings, Towton, Waterloo, D-Day, Imjin River and Operation Panther’s Claw in Afghanistan—and in exploring the factors that determined their precise form and course, answers fundamental questions about the waging of war.


Martin Meredith Zimbabwe Simon & Schuster, 28th, HB, £25, 9781471184901 “Important and definitive” new history of Zimbabwe across more than 600 years, from a period of relative stability, when local kings ruled Great Zimbabwe, to the modern era. It’s a “sweeping narrative of a country that has so much potential but has been so badly led”.


Lynda Mugglestone Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One OUP, 28th, HB, £25, 9780198870159 First exploration of the war-time quest by Clark—a writer, historian and volunteer on the first


Andrew Roberts George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch Allen Lane, 7th, HB, £35, 9780241413333 Overturning popular perceptions of George III as mad and weak, this new biography portrays him as intelligent, benevo- lent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and navigat- ing the turbulence of 18th-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty.


Glenn Patterson The Last Irish Question: Will Six Into Twenty Six Ever Go? Head of Zeus, 7th, PB, £16.99, 9781800245471 Said to be a “witty and informative” account of the south of Ireland, from political, social and geographical perspectives through the eyes of novel- ist and non-fiction writer Patterson, a “liberal and sceptical Northern Irish Protestant being asked to re-join a unified Ireland”.


Margo Rejmer Mud Sweeter Than Honey MacLehose Press, 21st, HB, £18.99, 9781529411461 This much-garlanded work of reportage, originally published in Poland, is a polyphonic account of life under Enver Hoxha’s regime in Albania. From poets and teachers to shoemakers and peasant farmers, it creates a vivid and often painful portrait of what was arguably the most brutal totalitarian state in Europe. Translated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones and Antonia Lloyd-Jones.


Angus Robertson Vienna: The International Capital Birlinn, 7th, HB, £30, 9781780276915 In this detailed history, the former BBC Vienna corre- spondent, and former deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, charts how the Austrian capital developed from a garrison town at the edge of the Roman Empire to a glittering international city of great composers and thinkers.


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Alison McCullough The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo- Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire Pushkin, 7th, HB, £25, 9781782276470 I love the sound of this new account of the Viking-Anglo-Saxon conflicts of the 11th century, by a popular Norwegian history author, who frames the Viking invasions and raids as part of a wider interna- tional struggle to control the great North Sea empire, of which England was only one part. It shows how intimately our nation’s early history was bound up with that of Scandinavia.


Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to War Allen Lane, 28th, HB, £20, 9780241423509 “Gripping” account of the “extraordinarily


compressed and terrify- ing” period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Hitler’s declaration of war on the US. It is the first study to investigate this critical period in detail, I’m told.


Jane Stevenson The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino Head of Zeus, 7th, HB, £30, 9781800241978 The story of the Italian Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro, humanist, book collector, patron of celebrated artists and battle-scarred mercenary soldier.


Said to be a riveting and disquieting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over 100,000 Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and how this paved the way for an even bigger Holocaust to come. Veidlinger is himself the son of a Holocaust survivor.


Homes, interiors, craft & fashion


Adrian Tinniswood Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House Cape, 7th, HB, £30, 9781787331785 From the Rolling Stones rocking Longleat to Christine Keeler rocking Cliveden, the author of The Long Weekend returns to take a rollicking tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. It all provides “a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of Britain in an era of monumental social change”.


Bert Van Loo The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire Head of Zeus, 28th, HB, £30, 9781789543438 A European bestseller, particularly in the author’s native Netherlands, this is an epic history of the dukedom of Burgundy which became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries.


Jeffrey Veidlinger In the Midst of Civilised Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust Picador, 28th, HB, £30, 9781509867448


Lauren de Barra Décor Galore: The Essential Guide to Styling your Home Transworld Ireland, 14th, HB, £16.99, 9781848272668 Irish DIY queen and author of Gaff Goddess returns to share every- thing we need to know in order to revitalise our homes; from maximising storage and creating layered lighting, to install- ing a new kitchen.


Lauren Liess Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life Abrams, 14th, HB, £28.99, 9781419751196 The textile designer author and founder of blog Pure Style Home explores the emotional connection between the way we decorate our houses and our daily lives.


Rob Pepper The Artist’s Manual: The Definitive Art Sourcebook: Media, Materials, Tools & Techniques DK, 7th, HB, £25, 9780241483855 Comprehensive reference on every aspect of making art, from basic know-how such as choosing the right tool and preparing a canvas, to glazing pots and making screenprints.


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Blacksmith: Tales from the Forge, from Apprentice to Master Quadrille, 28th, HB, £20, 9781787136458 This exploration into the life and practices of the modern blacksmith, by a leading exponent, also takes us into the history, mythology and folklore of


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