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Christendom
the Triumph of a religion
2023 || Hardcover || Peter Heather || Allen Lane
'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times
'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review
'A page-turner' The Spectator
*A major new reinterpretation of Christendom, by one of our foremost medieval historians*
In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almos...
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Chernobyl Roulette
a War Story
2024 || Hardcover || Serhii Plokhy || Allen Lane
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Ru...