Dominic Sandbrook is the author of “Never Had it So Good” (Abacus) and is finishing a book on the 1970s ...
“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.
In the acknowledgements to her book Nuclear War: A Scenario, shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Annie Jacobsen writes: “Nuclear war is insane. Every person I interviewed ...