The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
Caroline Sharples delineates the political atmosphere of post-capitulation Germany and real fears Allies harboured about reawakening of Nazism
Happy Land: Finding My Inner Finn by Tim Bird – Brings a smile
How a population perceived as being dour and taciturn by their neighbours appear to have cracked the code of happiness
The Garden and the Jungle by Edwy Plenel: A persuasive case against western panic over immigration
This France-centric book from a former editor of the French daily Le Monde has the sense of preaching to the choir
Fractured France by Andrew Hussey: Half-analysis, half-memoir, highly enjoyable
Some of the thing he diagnoses are undeniable, but at times he is given to pat resolutions
A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries: Clever but with shortcomings
This is a lively and at times bitingly funny attempt at summarising a broad field
How to Save the Amazon - A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers: fascinating insight into mechanics of Brazilian corruption
Book has been completed and brought to publication by collaborators, all of whom knew the murdered journalist to some degree
A thoroughly engrossing account of the Iranian revolution and an essential read on post-Assad Syria
King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson & Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine - a lucid, at times hectoring, short read
Ex-NYT correspondent argues passionately for the Palestinian cause and excoriates US authorities over blind support for Israel
Shattered Lands. Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia: Wonderful telling of a sad history
Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan
Genocide in Gaza: three new books take stock
Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar
Vikings in the East by Martyn Whittock: Well-researched account let down by attempt to make sense of Putin’s invasion
Historian’s examination of Russia and Ukraine’s shared origins succeeds to a point
Norway’s War: Masterly account of a lesser-known part of the second World War
Many remarkable stories other than that of Vidkun Quisling
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A Gerges – engaging read for seasoned observers
The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina: Valuable, vivid, frustrating
A worthy contribution to a growing body of literary reportage on the war in Ukraine
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same