How Colonel Nasser created the Middle-Eastern ‘dictators’ club’
We Are Your Soldiers, a meticulous study by journalist Alex Rowell, dismantles the Egyptian leader’s image as an anti-colonial hero
We Are Your Soldiers, a meticulous study by journalist Alex Rowell, dismantles the Egyptian leader’s image as an anti-colonial hero
Norman Fowler’s account of 17 years in office tends to the polite and generous, but evidently he prefers John Major to the Iron Lady
The theory that history is defined by alpha males feels unfashionable and offensive – but Ridley Scott's Napoleon proves we can’t let it go
Tania Branigan's Red Memory uncovers powerful testimony from families torn apart in Mao's China. Is the country doomed to more of the same?
The LBC host has written a wild polemic about the forces ‘who broke Britain’, but his thesis and examples are weak, and his prose childish
Irresistible, a new study by Joshua Paul Dale, is a zanily fascinating, if patchy, exploration of everything from kawaii to Mickey Mouse
It’s time the world wakes up to these prolific wonders that can be found anywhere and everywhere
‘I was born a girl... That’s the end of the argument,’ the Olympic runner writes in a new memoir explaining her clash with World Athletics
Philip Norman’s new biography of the late Beatle is a fleet and confident portrait of a complicated character
The story of the star-spangled banner is one of revolution, slavery and the first hydrogen bomb test
Anna Reid’s new history of the Russian Civil War is decently researched – but why does it paint Winston Churchill as a monster?
In The Woman in Me, the teen-pop princess accuses a litany of men of mistreating her, and a whole industry of profiting from her loss
The actress and model’s extraordinary memoir, Down the Drain, is a whirl of alleged abuse, drug deaths, sugar daddies – and Kanye West
With Jon Fosse, Fitzcarraldo have won again. As they and others explain, it’s down to their ethos – and British publishing’s blind spots
Despite Tory fears, the first Labour government didn’t dismantle the Establishment. But they did sufficient damage – as two new books show
Michael Lewis’s biography of the FTX chief offers a riveting story full of oddballs and odder decisions – but it ducks the biggest question
As Mary Gabriel’s biography shows, the Queen of Pop’s fearsome work ethic laid the ground for a generation of female artists
In his marital memoir, Pru and Me, West trots through their long careers with a string of jolly, if well-rehearsed, anecdotes
Fixing France, a new book by Nabila Ramdani, slaps a US-centric worldview onto French woes, and junks republican ideals with unhappy haste
A new book examines how, despite various witness accounts and records, war criminals were able to hide in plain sight on these shores