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Brought to you by Penguin. English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence was an unlikely cause, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what...

‘History is a matter of clues and divination — and a kind of luck that is not exactly luck at all.’ On a warm autumn evening in Paris, the author attends the screening of a 1970s cult film, at the centre of which is a house. Within an overgrown garden in a suburb of Athens lies a...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker “Excellent and timely.” —The New Yorker “Informative, insightful and provocative, On Antisemitism couldn’t be more timely.” —The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “An immense contribution. . . . In tracing the evolving meaning of ‘antisemitism...

Cunhado em 1879 na Alemanha, o termo "antissemitismo" se tornou fundamental para compreender o século XX e o extermínio de seis milhões de judeus coordenado pelo partido Nazista. Neste ensaio, calcado em rigorosa pesquisa, Mark Mazower traça a história da palavra para compreender seus usos...

Brought to you by Penguin. For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe’s political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who built on Christendom’s long-standing suspicion of its Jewish population and infused it with racist pseudo-science...